But wait..Torrents are P2P. If popcorn times ports to a P2P architecture because it's "better", aren't the user IPs just as vulnerable as they are with torrents?
A movie studio can pose as one of the users and track who is connecting to them and initiate prosecution against the owner of that IP.
What am I missing here? How is popcorn time better than torrents?
Popcorn Time isn't fixing that problem. Studios / Law firms / whoever can jump on the torrent, grab all the seeding IPs, and go to town.
All Popcorn Time does is include a built in search & video player. The actual torrenting part is the same as using a normal torrent client.
Where do you find out about the torrents? How do you get Popcorn Time updates? Right now that comes from a server somewhere. They want to make this part of the app P2P as well. Those are the P2P changes they are talking about.
So would I. And I act in independent films (hey, several of the movies I've been in recently are now on Amazon Instant Video, and Netflix deals should be upcoming; you can buy several of them on DVD at Walmart).
The reality is it just ain't that easy. Two years ago we did a zombie musical that won awards (best film, best comedy) at multiple festivals (think "My Fair Lady" with a zombie). It's good. (Yes, I am biased - but if you search, you'll find some good reviews, and few poor ones). A year ago we did a James Bond parody that won best comedy at one of those same festivals.
This year, we are doing an Indiana Jones parody. Same writer, same director. I've seen the script, it is quite funny. We are hoping to have it done in time for those same festivals. Fingers crossed.
So we try an Indiegogo campaign. A couple of grand in two months. A team that has produced two comedies with multiple awards and with distribution deals cannot raise enough to get started.
Why? Because there are sooooooo many campaigns, so many people making movies right now, especially shorts (sigh, a bane, we make features, which require commitments from people, who turn around and do 5, 6, 10 shorts because they can squeeze them in on a weekend without missing anything else; I do features coz IM(NS)HO it's way cooler).
And these movies are heavily pirated. Pretty much everything the director has made has a distribution deal. And everything the director has made is on torrents.
Kickstarter and Patreon and Indiegogo have one thing in common with the big studios: Landing a paying deal, a money-making deal is as much a lottery win with the one as with the other. The scale of the lottery prize is the only difference.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 20.6 ms ] threadA movie studio can pose as one of the users and track who is connecting to them and initiate prosecution against the owner of that IP.
What am I missing here? How is popcorn time better than torrents?
All Popcorn Time does is include a built in search & video player. The actual torrenting part is the same as using a normal torrent client.
Where do you find out about the torrents? How do you get Popcorn Time updates? Right now that comes from a server somewhere. They want to make this part of the app P2P as well. Those are the P2P changes they are talking about.
Adios MPAA--you are irrelevant in your role as a distributor now.
The reality is it just ain't that easy. Two years ago we did a zombie musical that won awards (best film, best comedy) at multiple festivals (think "My Fair Lady" with a zombie). It's good. (Yes, I am biased - but if you search, you'll find some good reviews, and few poor ones). A year ago we did a James Bond parody that won best comedy at one of those same festivals.
This year, we are doing an Indiana Jones parody. Same writer, same director. I've seen the script, it is quite funny. We are hoping to have it done in time for those same festivals. Fingers crossed.
So we try an Indiegogo campaign. A couple of grand in two months. A team that has produced two comedies with multiple awards and with distribution deals cannot raise enough to get started.
Why? Because there are sooooooo many campaigns, so many people making movies right now, especially shorts (sigh, a bane, we make features, which require commitments from people, who turn around and do 5, 6, 10 shorts because they can squeeze them in on a weekend without missing anything else; I do features coz IM(NS)HO it's way cooler).
And these movies are heavily pirated. Pretty much everything the director has made has a distribution deal. And everything the director has made is on torrents.
Kickstarter and Patreon and Indiegogo have one thing in common with the big studios: Landing a paying deal, a money-making deal is as much a lottery win with the one as with the other. The scale of the lottery prize is the only difference.