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The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download
An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web. By Friday, infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay had already adopted it. The Pirate Bay now features "Stream It!" links next to all its video torrents. As a result, you can play movies, TV shows, and any other video content directly in the same window you use to browse the torrent site.
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Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
The point is to never pay.
Pirate bay just raised the bar... I can't wait to see the media companies and governments reaction. Guess I should grab some popcorn, this is going to be entertaining... in both ways.
Now outfits like Rightscorp have a larger number of targets of people dumb enough to torrent without a proxy or VPN to sue.
It's only a matter of time until someone builds an anonymization layer for this that sees mass adoption.
None of it is worth watching. They couldn't pay me to watch 99.9999% of the crap that has been put out in the last 30+ years. I already get South Park On my TV anyways. This feature is like stealing water out of the ocean.
I checked out the new torrent time thing. It is definitely malware. It sets up a windows service and turns itself on. While it is running, your computer won't sleep because it sets a 30 second wake timer.
hollywood should welcome this, because over time everyone will get lazy and not seed and just stream and the ecosystem will falter.
it is time we alter the perception of artists and creators of art and entertainment. less as celebrities and stars who needs to live a larger than life, and more as individuals who express themselves and connect with rest better than most of us.
with effective disregard of copyright laws ( in spite of moronic attempts to expand and extend them on the part of establishment), and balkanization of what were called markets or audience according to niche tastes, they will get paid less as time goes on. they will have to live like rest of us.
whatever influence and power they will have, will be a purely a function of their effectiveness in expression and connecting with others, not on their hyped success or antics.
all in all this is a good thing imo, and takes us back to pre 19th century attitudes
You blame timothy
I blame our corporate overlords
I also blame whatever CMS /. currently uses for not having spelling and grammar checks. /. is using.
Firefox/IE/Edge/Chrome does a better job than whatever
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
This is insane.
Jesus Christ! Who the hell cares, aren't most programmers shitty grammarians anyways. We get what Timothy is trying to say. But did he really deserve that?
"Organization do" (singular) is proper British usage and is dominant in most English speaking locales. "Organization does" (singular) is Americanized pidgin. Get some elementary knowledge, stop the uninformed insults, and lose the provincial attitude. It's a big world and it does not rotate around the United States. Less and less every year does it do so.
You are both ignorant. It is perfectly proper British English.
American internet. American shows. American users. We kicked your limey ass back to Britain for a reason. You can learn Spanish and como mierde. You are supposed to be hanging from a rope from your troll bridge. Porridge eating inbred. Enjoy ;)
Linux is like 0.01%
I have tried popcorn time and I can say that you can stream only popular stuff to begin with because you need plenty of seeders for your chosen quality which is a problem, also internet connection problem in the middle of your movie/show would be catastrophic, atleast for me. So I can only recommend downloading otherwise be prepared to be frustraited.
If it weren't for the french you would be speaking English right now!
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So eat your French fries, I'm eating chips.
Are you implying that Pirate Bay is plural in Britain?
Um... Are you implying that Pirate Bay are plural in Britain?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
America has only won wars with Britain with the aid of foreign backing. Same is true for Eire. Mind you there are a shit ton of wars Britain has won and lost with the help of Johnny foreigner.
It's a big world and it do not rotate around the United States. Less and less every year do it do so.
In the UK and many other English-speaking countries, organisations are considered plural and take plural verbs.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Sorry, just jumping in here randomly as slashdot doesn't have a /meta/ channel... how can one open stories from the front page these days?
There used to be a link 'read more' or something... now.. there is nothing..
and some stories do not have text on the front page. wtf?
One of the trackers I use that is relatively small but has been offering p2p "clientless" torrent streaming via the web browser for some time. They do use a custom BHO plugin though for the client part. Never tried it tbh, but speeds here are always 10MB/s+, if enough peers are available, that is.
No one in their right mind would want to stream content they can download, and then view at their leisure. Streaming is a conspiracy of the bosses.
you are like 0.01x10^-99999999%
The big problem is not the pirate bay, people who copy, people who offer the copies or share them with whatever model, be it download or streaming.
The problem is that the content industry has still not gotten there is a market for that type of product they can monteize.
Does anyone remember Video Rental Shops? You had a bunch of them in town, they had basically all mainstream media, a whole lot of TV shows, a whole lot of "classic" movies, depending on the shop even some more obscure movies (no, I am not talking about pornography (which those shops also had)). You would go there, pay some money in quite reasonable regions (no matter if it was 2$ or 6$), and get the movie.
I utterly fail to understand why this very successful and simple concept has not yet been transferred to the age of the internet. Netflix, amazon instant video and all those others are just jokes compared to what even a medium sized video rental shop had to offer "back then". I do not even want a flatrate, just a massive choice of material, TV shows, and then I'll pay an appropiate price.
Also, coordinating the big studios that create content cannot be that hard, if the biggest dozen would get together we probably would have covered way more than 90% of the mainstream and probably also 90% of the classics.
They could make two-digit billions per year and get rid of the black market and "piracy" in one go. They'd, in the long run, even take over al lot of the market of the cable networks, thus cutting out the middle man entirely and get what those make instead. But nooooo... it still feels like the Napster-times...
Hello dumbass, British sites do not use American English and the opposite does not happen either. You don't like it, go make your own Slashdot instead of endlessly bitching and moaning about what the Americans have done. So the world doesn't revolve around America. Go! Go! Let us know when you're finished!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
European WWW, Swedish web site, and — per capita —
more Bittorrent traffic from Europe.
Is this a windows-only thing?
Doesn't stream for me on Linux Mint and Firefox. A separate tab opens in the browser and that's about all I get.
Help! I'm a slashdot refugee.
Is not British English only used so much throughout the world because of their tyranny? Warring with undermatched nations, annexing them under their Empire, and forcing their language onto the native peoples?
Not really... In the US it's a hard rule, in the UK it's not a hard rule but collective nouns are singular 99% of the time.
Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997.
Just thought I'd give an example from a highly esteemed British newspaper because this is Slashdot and nobody believes anything unless it goes along with the "The US does it wrong!" groupthink.
Slashdot: providing anti-social weirdos a soapbox, since 1997.
"Organization do" (singular) is proper British usage and is dominant in most English speaking locales. "Organization does" (singular) is Americanized pidgin.
No, this is completely wrong, regardless of what English-speaking country you live in. First, in a case like "organization do," the implication is still plural, not singular. "Organization" is here interpreted as a collective noun, meaning that while it is singular in form, when used this way it emphasizes the plural nature of the composition of the organization. "Germany is a nation," but "Germany have won the tournament." The latter does not mean that "Germany" is plural, but rather is a collective noun standing in for "members of the German team" which is plural and take a plural verb.
Second, your use of the word pidgin is inaccurate. A pidgin language is a second language, a simplified version of one language used as a form of communication between communities which do not share the same language. Americans do NOT have a different primary language other than English. Therefore, American English by definition cannot be a "pidgin." You can claim it is a dialect, and you can object to characteristics of it, but it's not a "pidgin" language.
Third, in British English the usage of a plural verb in this case is by no means mandatory. For some types of organizations or groups of people, a plural verb is common. For others, a singular verb is more common. Some show a mixture depending on context (whether the collective nature or the individual volition of members is being invoked). Also, corpus studies have shown that the use is dependent on formality, with plural verb forms being more common in very formal language and very informal language, but less common in "everyday" polite language.
Fourth -- and perhaps most importantly -- in this specific case, your claim doesn't accord with examples used prominently in British English journalism. The Pirate Bay *IS* largely considered singular there. Numerous examples at the BBC website, for example, show that the BBC would prefer the singular "American" verb when referring to The Pirate Bay ("The Pirate Bay lets"). A few quick looks on other UK sources seems to indicate that the singular verb form is much more common.
Get some elementary knowledge, stop the uninformed insults, and lose the provincial attitude.
Maybe you could try getting some more advanced knowledge and realizing that your oversimplified statements are wrong.
TL;DR -- Your assertion about British English in general is overbroad and inaccurately phrased. While there is more usage of plural verbs with singular collective nouns outside of the U.S., that usage is not always "proper" -- it depends on the particular noun and context. And regardless, your opinion does not reflect common journalistic practice from the UK regarding the specific word "The Pirate Bay."
So technically it doesn't just work in the browser. It needs a plugin.
It's also not clear if I'm still uploading while using this feature.
The solution doesn't work across operating systems and devices. So please do wake me when they're released something that actually works well enough for me to use on my entertainment system/laptop/etc.
Next people are claiming that it'll enable the entertainment industry to bring lawsuits against more people. It won't as there is VPN support available with it for a price for those who wish to hide. However I'd argue it's pointless to do so. I own a company that sells privacy friendly products including a VPN router. We're the primary sponsor behind the distribution for it and everything even. However I'd not argue people should utilise it to protect themselves from copyright trolls if what they are concerned about are lawsuits. It's a wasted effort when you have a billion pirates. Your more likely to get into accident or die of a heart attack than end up losing any substantial amount of money from a lawsuit. Our company has been sued by patent trolls- there is risk here- but the reality is copyright from an end-users perspective is a non-issue. The bigger issue is paying the lawyers bills- the actual settlement costs tend to be $20-$500 at the high end. Almost laughable, but that's on the slimmest of chances (far less than 0.001%) you get sued.
There are also reports of this being malware. I'd be a little cautious of installing it. I've not had a good chance to look through the sources and see if the complete set of sources exists (ie that there are no proprietary bits and that the sources match the binary, etc), but given we have lots of malware and malicious stuff (advertisers) going on with torrent / streaming sites in general I'd be very very cautious here.
Except everyone with a phone or tablet who wants to watch something while mobile or away from their desktop.