Since the videos are shared via p2p when being streamed, what prevents an instance to upload copyrighted material like Popcorn Time? Are there any instances with movies?

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    In many countries it is commonly understood that p2p is legally dangerous, because you’re committing copyright infringement by becoming a distributor of the copyrighted content, while streaming sites full of pirated content are safe to use because you’re just downloading. Web torrent breaks that assumption.

    It is a very cool idea, and its exciting that libtorrent added support for webtorrents, potentially completing that bridge between the browser and torrents.