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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.
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.
Thank you for sharing.
It's only a matter of time until someone builds an anonymization layer for this that sees mass adoption.
There is nothing worthwhile except South Park? You have interesting tastes my friend.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
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.
well, you can't drink the water out of the ocean... No not sure what good it is stealing it.
I watch some NBA/NFL and the rest is on the Smithsonian channel. The last really good movie I watched was A Clockwork Orange about 30 years ago.
Whoosh!
It seeds while streaming...
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!
I download movies but watch *maybe* 1 every 3 months if that. Went to see my first movie in the theater in well over ten years for the latest Star Wars. Fully reinforced the concept that I am NOT willing to pay for that experience. Fucking 45 minutes of trailers. And for 3 people with a drink and 1 popcorn it was about 50 bucks.
Just wow.
Will happily pay (and do) for Netflix. The MPAA needs to get ALL it's shit on there and they'll get paid a reasonable amount of payment. And reasonable is determined by the customer, not the provider.
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
"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.
Sad to say I just re-read it and now realized what you were saying and i failed... i'm going to go be emo in the corner now...
It's OK. Just grab Tribler and stream a nice episode of "1000 Uses For Seawater" /s
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!
;P
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!
Don't forget to seed!
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
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.
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.
I watch some NBA/NFL and the rest is on the Smithsonian channel. The last really good movie I watched was A Clockwork Orange about 30 years ago.
If I were ranking Kubrick's movies in order of how much I enjoyed them, Clockwork would be near the bottom of the list. I guess this is why Baskin Robbins has more than one flavor. And why there are zero good reason for anyone to think their personal opinion should dictate the course of the world.
Ideology: A tool used primarily to avoid the bother of thinking.
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.
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.
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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."
Somebody throw a dildo at this man's face.