Film entertainment is one of our most basic needs, and because of this, witty humans have been tossing and turning about "how to make watching movies more convenient".
In the past, watching movies all relied on television, and because the film source was supplied by TV stations, we could only choose which station to watch, and we couldn't accurately choose the content we liked to watch.
In the traditional Internet era, online video platforms such as Aiyouteng have risen, and netizens finally have the right to choose a large amount of content.
Various online dramas and movies are emerging in an endless stream, filling up the free time of the watching party.
Then to today's mobile Internet era, it is more convenient for everyone to watch the film, a mobile phone plus several video Apps, anytime, anywhere can watch.
But to be honest, although the portability piece is solved, problems such as video copyright fragmentation and content loss in various video apps still exist.
Some small partners may say that Aiyouteng has burned money to buy so many copyrights, not enough for everyone to see?
Xiao Lei wants to say that it is really not enough to watch, due to restrictions such as content scale and copyright, many excellent overseas dramas and movies cannot enter the country in a bright light.
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This is why Renren Film and Television, a website platform that introduces overseas films, is also popular and proves the high demand of the audience.
But unfortunately, after more than ten years of tossing and turning, Renren Film and Television finally fell on piracy for profit.
And Renren Film and Television front foot just cold, recently Xiao Lei saw a bad news, overseas there is also a pirated film and television software Popcorn Time also announced the initiative to shut down.
The overseas version of the fast broadcast also can't stand it
Maybe the small partners are very confused, thinking about where this is the copycat software, ah, how to hear have not heard.
It is also normal, Popcorn Time is mainly used by foreign netizens, because there is no publicity in China, and the number of people who use it is very few.
But its collapse will really make the world's film-watching parties regret it.
Why? Xiao Lei brushed a little, Popcorn Time's status on the foreigner's side, equivalent to the domestic fast broadcast bar...
Let's start with "Origins", 2014 is the most popular period for BT seeds.
After all, it is decentralized, not controlled by any video website, and is especially suitable for breeding pirated videos.
However, although BT is good, there is still a certain threshold for practical use, such as netizens often get BT seeds that will not be used, or a "dead seed", resulting in no speed in downloading.
At this time, several like-minded programmers used existing BT technology to make a cross-platform BitTorrent client - Popcorn Time.
It is different from ordinary BT downloaders, this software not only integrates massive film and television resources in it, but also has a BT online playback function.
This kind of software we are very familiar with ah, the previous fast broadcast is also almost the function, the difference is only that the fast broadcast itself does not integrate resources, the resource library to the various on-demand websites.
And the original intention of these developers to do Popcorn Time is also very simple: go to Netflix (foreign version of Aiyouteng) and can't find the movie they want to watch...
So what to do? The developers designed the entire software to be very beautiful, benchmarking Netflix, and greatly simplifying the operation of BT watching films.
Users only need to move the mouse, double-click on the film they want to watch to watch online, and it is even cooler to use than the regular video platform.
Popcorn Time is essentially a BT client, so while users watch the film, it is equivalent to planting the film and making other users watch the film more smoothly.
This is also the core of the spirit of BT, everyone is for me, I am for everyone, in stark contrast to the vampire thunder.
Simple and easy to use, rich in resources, unemasculated and free, these advantages have enabled Popcorn Time to gain millions of users after launching 4 months.
In October 2014, the Google search volume of "Popcorn Time" even surpassed Netflix, which can be described as the peak of its debut.
emm... It is equivalent to Xiao Lei making a video software, and then engaged in three months to surpass iQiyi, which is too magical.
And Netflix is also not hiding its panic, in 2015 it publicly said that Popcorn Time is the biggest competitor.
But Popporn Time still encountered the same old problems as Renren Film.
The more famous the software, the easier it is to get into trouble, after all, many of the resources in it are pirated.
A pirated software ruthlessly sucks away the traffic of genuine video websites, and people who make money by copyright are certainly not happy.
So for the next few years, Popcorn Time was repeatedly suppressed by copyright defenders, bouncing back and forth between shutting down and reopening.
In the process of catching piracy, there was also a very strange thing, on August 17, 2015, the Danish police blocked the Danish official website of Popporn Time.
Two webmasters were then arrested to do justice, only to find out after an investigation that the two webmasters had nothing to do with the Popporn Time development team.
Purely based on their interests, people post some tutorials and information about Popcorn Time on the website.
If in other countries, these two people still have a chance to escape, but in Denmark, a big copyright country, they can't get through this without going in to eat a wave prison meal.
Since piracy is a nail in the coffin, why can Popporn Time still float in front of the genuine version for many years?
This is a good thing to say, in fact, several development leaders have thought about this problem at the beginning of the design, they not only want to engage in piracy, but also to make it straight.
There are two main ways to achieve "righteousness", the first of which is naturally fully open source.
Yes, in order to maximize the risk sharing, developers simply open source the software.
Hey hey, now the software is not my own, the BT seed in the software is not my own, now I can always be at ease to develop it.
And open source also has the advantage of making the software "spring breeze and born", after all, the code is public, and other programmers can also use the magic to make a derivative version.
It's a bit of a rogue, but it's a good way to keep the project alive.
The second trick is even simpler, the developers have never made any profit with Poppern Time.
"Non-profit, only for research and learning", this copywriter is estimated that everyone has seen it.
When the time comes, it is really checked that the water meter, it is completely possible to evade responsibility for this reason, in the case of no profit, in fact, the above is really difficult to deal with.
Previously, Renren Film and Television Operators were also arrested for illegal profits.
However, frequent crackdowns on copyright still have a lot of impact on the software, and every time the water meter is checked, it will lead to website closure + resource reduction.
Over time, popcorn Time's user base has been seriously lost, and this time Popcorn Time actively shut down precisely because there are too few users.
Oh, without waiting for netizens to mourn, the official website itself on R.I.P up, but also put a traffic trend below the website.
Historically, it is also a short-lived project.
At this moment, it is exactly the same time and moment
Like, too much.
After understanding the entire development process of Popcorn Time, Xiao Lei only felt that it had a very similar fate to Renren Film and Television and Fast Broadcast.
It can even be said that it is a reproduction of the history of Renren Film and Television.
It also received a lot of attention at the beginning, and it also worked with copyright for several years, and finally ended up with a not-so-pretty ending.
Specific to the details of the function, it is very similar to the fast broadcast, everyone can click pirated movies and television, but Popcorn Time does not engage in yellow.
Judging from the results, the copyright owner must be the party of justice, and it is too normal to defeat piracy.
But many times, we don't want this kind of "conscience" piracy to fall easily, and the proper palms and backs of the hands are all meat.
Genuine version is good, it can provide due remuneration for creators, but due to copyright and scale and other factors, so that many film sources can not be explicitly listed, even if it is on the shelves is a castrated version with a head and tail.
On the other hand, some copyright owners take the copyright everywhere to monopolize, and the most classic is the stubble of advanced on-demand.
Our ideal support for genuine is that consumers want to pay for a better experience, rather than letting the copyright owner become more aggressive...