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How they profitted?

Living in Spain here, also illegal (otherwise would kill the joy), you can just make a copy for your own personal use from something you have the original copy.

But there’s no persecution for the final user nor any precedent of final users being busted, so... let’s PIIIIRATE.

Not camera copy, they had (still have) the good fullhd rips, very good quality and multichannel sound. You should try it.

It wasnt a website, (was an app) and it doesnt stream nor stored any movie (just linked to the respective torrents).

How many things can you get wrong in such a short sentence? Oh yes, and it is

It hadn’t, Popcorntime was an app from the day 1.

As it is Open source, it has been moved to a webapp later on.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

I used Napster, then Emule than torrents, than Popcorntime.io (now time4popcorn). Never had any problem nor malware with it, AAAND its Open Source, you could check the source files for malware (not time4popcorn)

If time4popcorn closes I would have no problems going back to

Using 4 channels and playing the smartphone optimized or the high-end channels according to the device? Doesn´t sound technologically complicated, specially with cheap storage.

“back to a bad sleep paralysis like event, I can usually wake up, by jumping off of something in my dream”

Please be sure you are actually sleeping.

Thank you, was the most in-topic and informative answer I got.

You clearly misunderstood the topic.

Personal data =/= All user created content
If you share something that is public data

And they are not cashing in on the success of American companies they are protecting user data since US is now considered NOT-SAFE for private data.

This law is not vague, the article is, change the

Yes there is a reason, Spanish money.

Otherwise they would not have a Spanish subsidiary (they have)

Because Google wanna be able to invoice local companies, and for this they need to comply with EU laws.

Sure, we will still be able to use foreign services as we will and no firewall will be put in place, I can use paypal or other to pay for foreign services, but for companies (where Google’s money came from) it is a

YOU should have written the article! :)

It just apply to PERSONAL DATA from its citizens.

Google.com can be in US, but GMAIL.com needs to be stored locally or in other country that protect its privacy.
Facebook.com can still be stored in US, except from your personal info.

They are not forbiding anything from the user side, Im free to use a service that doesnt

They will not ban anything for the user side... they will ban FACEBOOK/GOOGLE/whatsoever to operate in Spain (read: use Spanish Banks, having spanish subsidiary, opening a local company) if they dont store personal data in Spain (or other country that guarantee the data protection).

Because the law says so. IF the company wants to operate in, for example Spain, all the personal data needs to be stored in Spain.

Of course all the citizens are free to use services that doesnt operate in its country, no one are banning the use of foreighn services.

But if Google or Facebook want to have a Spanish

They cant, the law just forbid this.

If the company wants to operate in Spain all the personal data needs to be stored in Spain.

(Yes the article doesnt say that, check other sources)

The law just forbid this.
If they operate in France, the (personal) data needs to be in France.

Of course it doesnt apply if you use a service that doesnt operate in your country, as it would not neet to follow its laws.

If I have an Gmail account it is stored in US (even if Im in Spain).

Us government can just ask Google the data from its servers in US without even notifying anyone in Spain. The law is to prevent this.

Basically they are saying US laws dont protect privacy so our data have to be here to be protected.

No they can’t, the law is exactly to prevent this.

From the (better written) Engadget post:

“following today’s judgement, they may now need to store those details locally or prove that European privacy standards designed to protect your rights are being upheld.”