Re:Popcorn Time in Your Browser
by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @03:09PM
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Popcorn Time didn't do ANY of that.
Do a Google search for intitle:index.of mkv -html -htm -php -asp -txt. Popcorn Time is THAT with a pretty UI. That's it. It in no way addresses any of the complication with releasing a movie in a consumer friendly way without theft.
Yes, the movie industry needs to change. But one cannot compare the hurtles they have to jump (and figure out how to eliminate) with a site that does nothing but put a pretty image on content theft.
There's whole catalogs of movies I bet the movie industry would love to make available but can't simply because they can't get streaming licenses from some now defunct band that did the musical score for it (for example). You cannot just gloss over these kinds of challenges by saying, "Well, some thief who knows PHP can do it!".
Yes, the movie industry needs to change. But one cannot compare the hurtles they have to jump (and figure out how to eliminate) with a site that does nothing but put a pretty image on content theft.
There's whole catalogs of movies I bet the movie industry would love to make available but can't simply because they can't get streaming licenses from some now defunct band that did the musical score for it (for example). You cannot just gloss over these kinds of challenges by saying, "Well, some thief who knows PHP can do it!".