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Torrents Time Lets Anyone Launch Their Own Web Version of Popcorn Time
An anonymous reader writes: Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, just got its own web version: Popcorn Time Online. Unlike other attempts to bring Popcorn Time into the browser, this one is powered by a tool called Torrents Time, which delivers the movies and TV shows via an embedded torrent client. Oh, and the developers have released the code so that anyone can create their own version. If Popcorn Time is Hollywood's worst nightmare, Torrents Time is trying to make sure Hollywood can't wake up.
"...If Popcorn Time is Hollywood's worst nightmare, Torrents Time is trying to make sure Hollywood can't wake up."
Alright, enough of this bullshit. Everyone listen up. There are more than enough consumers on this planet to accommodate the greedy executives who run the capitalist corporations, as well as accommodating those who don't feel like paying them a damn dime.
Let's put it this way. How many sales records did the latest Star Wars movie crush in a matter of weeks? I rest my case. Now kindly STFU already about capitalism being killed by piracy. It's not happening nor is it ever going to, and the last fucking thing the lawyers need are the geeks themselves confirming this lie in order to justify more Orwellian anti-piracy laws.
So you have no problem stealing things so long as there are enough other people subsidizing it that the creators don't actively lose money? Congratulations, you're a mooch and a jackass.
It's really simple. If someone makes something and gives it away, fine, don't pay. If someone makes something and gives it away but asks for donations if you liked it, fine, don't pay if you don't want to. But if someone makes something that you want to see/use/whatever, and decides to charge money for it, then that's the fee to see/use/whatever. Oh, the price is more than you want to pay? Too bad, go without (note that we're talking about entertainment products and software, not stuff like food and shelter) or find an alternative. Why are you so special that everyone else has to pay, but not you? Oh, you're sticking it to the man by being a freeloader? Please. Get back with me once you've grown up a little bit.
Or, if you legitimately are too poor to spend a few bucks on a movie now and again, you probably have much bigger problems, and I wonder how you afford Internet access and a computer/smartphone to post on Slashdot.