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@andrewwarner I have the same question 😀

@rrhoover @andrewwarner I live in a country where copyright law is almost nonexistant, and simply I don't care. I will keep moving the website, changing domains and providers... I don't need to earn a single penny from it, I just want to do it because I believe that piracy will eventually cause the streaming bubble to pop, and the movie studios will realize that: a) Geo-blocking is pointless - It just makes it more expensive to legally watch content (see VPNs+Netflix) b) Charging for a movie the same amount of money in the U.S. with the minimum wage of $7 and Serbia, with a minimum wage of less than $1. It's insane and causes people to pirate c) Legitimate streaming websites must not have any DRM and not include any proprietary codecs, as that causes the browser to be vulnerable due to the sloppy programming. d) Legitimate streaming websites must be available all over the world in all languages, with movies that people want to watch in that region. I Don't care about how that's "impossible". If they don't realize that, they're going to be "battling" piracy forever, and piracy always wins. You cut off one head, 5 more grow out.

@milankragujevic @andrewwarner keep bending yourself in knots over the justification. The reality is that no one that this effects monetarily "works" for the MPAA. They are a lobbying organization. The worldwide rights picture as applied to movies (and music) is much, much, much more complicated than strictly "greed". But of course simplistic justifications for piracy (and reactionary measures to combat it) are old enough to drive by now, so fuck it.

@milankragujevic @andrewwarner The website seems to be down already, have you got another site up? Or perhaps a twitter handle I can follow to follow the domains?

@ethank funny to see you here :) long time no see ++

@samchristie Similarly confused.

@samchristie No one said it was legal. The law discriminates on the basis of what you are downloading. If you are downloading non-copyrighted material, then use of these sites is entirely legal. In the case of copyrighted data, downloading is illegal. If you illegally downloaded copyrighted material, there is almost certainly nothing to worry about. Tens of millions of people are downloading items from torrent sites every day with no repercussions, but only a few tens of thousands have been prosecuted over the last decade. The odds are in your favor. However, there are legal hazards. Some rare files are bait intentionally placed there by companies who hope to catch you in the act. They monitor the IP addresses of anyone who downloads said bait and then notify the ISPs of the downloaders. ISPs take no legal action here, but they will send you a (usually) polite warning. The real sharks are organizations like the MPAA or the RIAA. Luckily, it is not legally easy for these people to get ISPs to disclose your downloading habits. The MPAA and RIAA have to jump through a variety of legal hoops to get your identity. For efficiency, they prefer to do this to a few thousand people at a time, most of those will be offered settlements in the range of thousands of dollars. Thankfully, there are methods that you can research for obscuring your IP address. Since ISPs need the illegality of the download to be brought to their attention in the first place, using software that hides your IP (like a VPN) from the organizations watching downloaders will make piracy much safer for you. Source: Quora

@irvingtorresyc I've just never seen an illegal product on PH so I was just confused

@samchristie I've seen many. My MovBucket, Popcorn in Your Browser (got 1200+ votes), the original Popcorn Time, isoPlex...

@samchristie I've seen products on PH that clearly violate the TOS of the APIs they rely on. For a memory-jogger, please consider the (several) "web to Instagram uploaders" we've seen.

@bentossell does it work on PS4?

@danielkempe @bentossell Creator here. It does work, however it doesn't support keyboard navigation, so you have to move the pointer. I'm not sure how the PS4 works, but I'm assuming there is a pointer in the browser.

@milankragujevic @bentossell Cool - I tried it out but nothing seems to load on my PS4 for some reason... Not sure if its to do with format...

@danielkempe @bentossell Does the video not load or do the movies not load?

@milankragujevic @bentossell when i click watch video on ps4, it loads the video player but then errors out.. Can only think it's either the format or the player that ps4 has an issue with.. I will try my TV browser!!