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What is PopCornTime?

It is the “Netflix” of pirated movies, learn more here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time



> What is PopCornTime?

b7861e52eda1961101b605593fd2b4e8c2210e41

> I haven't used PopCornTime for a long time, as I have Netflix+HBO subscriptions, but it's time to reinstall it as a way to disobay the takedown.

> only tested it years ago, can't be arsed with the gobshite one gets mainly from US.. media junk, like the food. but min this is back up, I will give it a swirl.

When will they learn a p2p system/network can never truly be taken down so long as Human's have personal agency. Furthermore, Github was always a central point of failure, made even more vulnerable due to its purchase from M$. This only further proves why that is.

> Out of touch politicians coming up with tech policy in the 90s. Tada!

This is mere optics and one motivated by self-praise as it doesn't really work. But I'm glad some carry on the spirit of Gene Kan.


> > What is PopCornTime?

> b7861e52eda1961101b605593fd2b4e8c2210e41

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b7861e52eda1961101b605593fd2b4e8c2210e41&dn=PopCornTime doesn't seem to exist, so I'm not sure what you mean by that. But yes; as the saying goes, censorship is damage; the internet routes around it.


That's the hash to the .apk file, I just checked it again and it actually has more seeders on it then when I posted. Are you on any viable trackers?

Even googling it takes you to the many search engines where its stats can be found:

seeds: 33 leechers: 5.


Huh, doesn't seem to be in DHT for me, not really sure what going wrong there. Are you sure it's not marked private (aka is a corrupt or invalid infoblob)? And no, none of top three results on duckduckgo has a working tracker for it.


Shrug, running fine on my end. Try adding these:

https://extratorrent.cm/torrent_trackers/4023101/popcorn-tim...

Failing that, and you still want the file(s), here it is for all supported distros [1], download them and re-up and seed and post the torrent/hash here.

https://getpopcorntime.is/android.html


> When will they learn a p2p system/network can never truly be taken down so long as Human's have personal agency.

I do think they have learned that by now. However their goal is not to take it down completely, just to make it more difficult to install for a layman. And that they can be rather successful in: if there's a thousand different ways to get Popcorn Time, half of which don't work, your common user will quickly give up and go pay for their Netflix. I myself have done that, and I consider myself a technical person.




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