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You guys should know about QuickSilverScreen.im it changed the way I watch anything. (self.cordcutters)

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The Main forum

Divx Tv Shows(Medium Quality links most are TV/DVD rips under 720p)

Flash Tv Shows(Great for fast buffering and low bandwidth connections)

HD Tv Shows(720p/1080p -bandwidth intensive)

They also have movie sections in the forums, but I'm sure you guys can find it yourselves.

Legality: The site operates in a legal grey area, since they don't host anything themselves they aren't breaking the law; They link to sites like Megaupload and Movreel. You can find absolutely any TV show you can think of on this site (yes even <ObscureTvShowX> from <ObscureCountryX>), and TV shows are uploaded and linked within minutes of the show airing on TV. Best of all you don't need an account to browse their links, so no credit card bullshit, anyone can just browse the site, if you want to make an account it's free and you will be able to post and contribute links. This site is community run, 99% of the users posting video links are volunteers and as such are not paid.

Edit1: I'd also like to say that I don't work for this site, and am in no way affiliated with them but I recommend them to all my friends and family and it changes the way people watch TV... I hope we can get them put on the sidebar.

Edit2: Also you guys will probably notice that all the megaupload links in the Divx & HD sections link to a site called mrbrownee70.com. Don't worry it's not an ad... it's a site created by a very active member of QSS, specifically for QSS, so that you can stream from Divx sites using his scripts (the scripts also take care of all the "captcha's" and the "click my if you are human" buttons).

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[–]iamrook 12 points13 points ago

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Also http://www.tv-links.eu/

[–]GueroCabron 1 point2 points ago

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also eztv.it

[–]JackpotDen 0 points1 point ago

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Megusta. Malto benne.

[–]dougbdl 0 points1 point ago

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This is cool! Thanks!

[–]fam1ne 0 points1 point ago

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I almost have a XBMC plugin ready for this site, I'd say it's 90% complete, just a few bugs to work out with name formatting, then I need to figure out how to place each episode in it's proper season folder, then it's simply adding in the resolvers (which I already have done), so if you use XBMC look for a release in the next few weeks for tv-links.

Keep in mind this is my first plugin I've ever made so it may have bugs I haven't ran into when it's released but hopefully i'll have everything all ironed out. It's been one fun learning experience figuring it all out though.

[–]fam1ne 5 points6 points ago

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Thanks for the site. I may use this as my first attempt at an xbmc addon.

[–]officethug 1 point2 points ago

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just tracking....would love to see an xbmc addon!!

[–]fam1ne 1 point2 points ago

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Didn't have time to look til tonight i will create a new post here if i get it done.

[–]fam1ne 0 points1 point ago

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Just a heads up I have been working on this but it's taking more time than expected because the HTML formatting has a ton of whitespace issues that I need to figure out how to correct so I can properly parse the site.

However, I also been working on TV-Links, Justin.tv, Megarelease, and Ninjavideo as well. All of those I have mostly completed, TV-Links just needs resolvers added and it will work so hopefully in a week or two I'll have it to the point where I'm happy with the plugin and have an official release. I'll try to remember to post back here when it's ready.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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If I could use this on my jailbroken apple tv i'd hug you.

[–]fam1ne 2 points3 points ago

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I'll see if I have time to start this weekend. I want to learn python to make some addons, this site seems to be layed out fairly simple so it may be a very good site for anyone wanting to get into coding for xbmc. If anyone else is interested in trying their hand at it as well we can learn together and make it a little easier on the learning curve.

[–]AnarchistPrick 16 points17 points ago

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Icefilms.info > anything else out there.

[–]5in1in5 7 points8 points ago

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I just checked out OP's site and was impressed with the ability to seek in a movie. Icefilms will not let you do this.

Lets say you fell a sleep to a movie about half way through. If you wanted to start half way through on your next attempt on the movie you would have to wait for the "buffer" bar at the bottom to get to at least half of the movie. On the quicksilver site you can slide the seek bar "at the bottom" to any-point in the movie and it will start streaming from there.

I agree Icefilms is awesome (have an upvote), and has a beautiful selection, but I am always open to a new site and I thank OP for it. One more thing, Ice films seems like it is always going out for days at a time, at the very least this is a good back up site. Thanks again OP.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 1 point2 points ago*

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You're very welcome.

Also about the buffer bar, this works mainly in flash, not so much in DivX, but the advantage to the DivX is you can have the streamed copy saved to your HDD afterwards. Or just download it straight from the hosting site and feel a lot safer that you aren't going to get your IP thrown into some Warner Brothers lawsuit.

[–]TenaciousBe 1 point2 points ago

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Good call, sir. I've been a loyal icefilmser for the past year or so (found it after ninjavideo got the axe), but always up for new/alternate sites, especially with icefilms' propensity for going down. Though, I'm not sure if I agree about seeking - if you're watching in Divx, fall asleep through it, the full thing is still sitting there on your browser, fully buffered, when you wake up. The only problem I've run into is sometimes the Divx player likes to hiccup like crazy even after it is all buffered - though that could just be a local problem on my machine or something. Not that it pauses to "buffer" when it doesn't need to, it just keeps repeating itself, play for a bit and then repeat the last second or two, etc.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Not it's not your system, the Divx WebPlayer is unfortunately no longer supported by the Divx team (either that or there on extended holiday) and it does sometimes crash but its usefulness for me at least allows me to forgive it, and we've learned to get a long nicely...

[–]DarkFiction[S] 1 point2 points ago*

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I've tried it and I can't say I'm a fan, they usually only link to the large sites like Megaupload and it's (as far as I remember) only in Divx format. Also with QSS you can search by categories (new releases, flash, divx, HQ, Sci-Fi, Comedy, etc...)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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The truth. Always welcome any alternatives though.

[–]JoshuaLyman 2 points3 points ago

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Looks cool. Thanks. BTW, if anyone's confused about the front page interface, clicking on the thumbnails doesn't do anything. When you hover on the thumb, it will change the larger image and you need to click on that. A bit weak, I think, but not hugely annoying.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago*

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I usually avoid the front page if that's what you meant, I bookmark direct links to the forum like the "Divx TV section" and you can always navigate back from there.

[–]Raerth 2 points3 points ago

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What about Project Free TV or Movie2k?

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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The first site looks terrible but Movie2k looks neat, although I prefer the forum style layout and organization of QSS. (But I admit I'm bias after years of using it...)

[–]Raerth 0 points1 point ago

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Agreed that the first site looks terrible, but they usually have a wider selection of TV and find better quality links.

The second site looks a lot more slick, and is awesome for movies, but still has some good TV links.

[–]dougbdl 0 points1 point ago

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Movie2k is awesome. I tested it with Dolphin Tale and the quality was poor. It looks like it was literally recorded in a theatre. But a few of the other links looked great and I am sure I will use this site.

[–]Code347 1 point2 points ago

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It would be great if I could access this directly through my Roku so I can watch in the bedroom. But this is pretty robust in content.

[–]TheRobotSpy 1 point2 points ago

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Thanks, this looks like a good option.

[–]loutig 1 point2 points ago

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With utorrent 3 you can stream torrents. The reason that the public sites are gone after the most is because that is where the most users are of course, and it takes more work to get that private database. The industry is trying to stop people from sharing so they can get the revenue stream back, that is what they think. Sending a large number of letters to a person accomplishes no more than sending a few to a person. This is because they are not going to be able to collect enough damages to make it worth their while. Even the mass porn law suits are not working the way the companies thought they would. Thanks for all the streaming sites.

[–]markuscreek24 -1 points0 points ago

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why not just pirate bay it all, better quality, no ads, less hassle.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 5 points6 points ago*

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Good question.

Legality... Streaming another legal grey area, you can't prosecute someone for streaming videos, and the site hosting it will get a DMCA notice and they will comply and take it down... (And it will be reuploaded within hours.)

On the other hand, with Bit-torrent people do get tracked as the user IPs are visible to everyone and this has ended up with letters to ISP's and in some cases lawsuits.

Better Quality

Nope, it's the same quality, if you look at the source code for the streaming sites you will notice ALL of them are tagged in the file names with aXXo and such. These are the same files you are downloading, but I can actually watch mine as it downloads (and I'm not going to get sued).

No ads

The sites have ads sure, but if you are talking about the sites that force you to watch a stupid video for 10-30seconds before you can play it, that only happens on flash sites (like zshare.net but the really good ones like putlocker.com make their money on the amount of views and sidebar ads, also the no-script plugin stops a lot of shit.)since the Divx web player was not designed to support this. Or stuff like hulu where they interrupt your video intermittently for commercials... that doesn't happen because standerd flash players don't support this and they would have to do so much coding it isn't worth it to change it, also divx players don't support this. Adblock takes care of any regular ads on the sides as well so it's not an issue.

Less hassle

I've gotten emails from my ISP because some family members got baited into downloading a fake torrent for a popular movie and they only give so many warnings before they cut you off... luckily my ISP didn't give my personal info to the lawyers requesting it but they may eventually. With streaming that isn't going to happen and with the divx web player (the older version 1.6) the video dowloads to a folder on your computer (pc & mac) and you can have the AVI and save it to a permanent location afterwards...

So you tell me what's more of a hassle... plus I never have to worry about viruses (not that you do if you are good at torrenting) but I also don't get fake videos (porn pretending to be a movie) or passworded rar's...

TL;DR Streaming is easier. Torrent's are better for other things...

[–]acoustep 2 points3 points ago

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You have a lot of well thought out points. I disagree with some of them. Bear in mind I no longer use torrents because of another similar yet far less popular (and so less legally targeted) method.

Legality

The fact is, you're downloading during streaming, it's just to your cache. You are far less likely to be targeted via streaming, I won't argue against that. However most avid torrent users will be members of private websites which are far less likely to be targeted than public ones.

Better Quality

With torrents you are generally offered a range of qualities, generally as high, or higher than streaming quality. Also, I believe you can actually stream some torrents while they download. I stopped using torrents before this was implemented, so I cannot confirm this.

Less hassle

This is generally a non-issue for private torrent tracker users. Also, people that use services such as BT Guard or VPNs are far less likely to be targeted.

What I will say against torrents, one of the reasons I stopped using them which you didn't touch on is: Ratios. Of course, this is more of a private tracker issue, but an important one none the less. My internet speed sucks and I find it difficult to keep my ratio high while enjoying the content that they provide.

What I'll say agaisnt streaming: Sometimes I like to rewatch shows, have you ever tried to rewatch an old show you really enjoyed via streaming? 9/10 streams get banned after a month. Of course I'm making that figure up but it certainly feels that way.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 1 point2 points ago

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What I'll say agaisnt streaming: Sometimes I like to rewatch shows, have you ever tried to rewatch an old show you really enjoyed via streaming? 9/10 streams get banned after a month. Of course I'm making that figure up but it certainly feels that way.

Yup, most do, but that's why I like QSS in particular, if you take a look at a few threads you will see when a particular episode of <TvShowX> goes down someone will post a reply asking for it and it will be re-uploaded within hours usually, and the "big" or popular shows this is a non-issue since a person tends to upload the show to no less than 3-4 different streaming sites and when you get 6-10+ doing this for each episode it's very hard for them to take down all those links. Not to mention people tend to not upload things with obvious names like "Dexter season 4 episode 1" just so they can't be found through the hosting sites search engine and get banned that way.

Also, people that use services such as BT Guard or VPNs are far less likely to be targeted.

Are these services free? I've seen a few but they usually have a monthly cost.

With torrents you are generally offered a range of qualities, generally as high, or higher than streaming quality.

Yup, I agree but if you see the main thread you will notice they have an entire section dedicated to HD shows /movies (720p/1080p and the HD Movie section is all BDRips. The only issue here is speed and bandwidth... But there is nothing stopping a person from starting the movie, pausing it and letting it buffer while you do other things.

I agree with most of what you say, especially the part about keeping a ratio intact with sites like Demonoid, and if your speed is that much of an issue you might prefer flash streaming for a speed VS quality trade off. Also I've never heard of streaming a torrent, I'll look into that.

[–]acoustep 0 points1 point ago

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QSS in particular, if you take a look at a few threads you will see when a particular episode of <TvShowX> goes down someone will post a reply asking for it and it will be re-uploaded within hours usually

I have no experience with QSS. It may suit you perfectly, but, being the recluse I am, I prefer my shows right now without having to ask for them.

Are these services free? I've seen a few but they usually have a monthly cost.

No. I decided a long time a go that I would prefer to pay money for the convenience and security. Long story short, my ISP throttled torrents anyway, so I used BT guard (at the time) to speed them up as they encypted and used different ports. Obviously, this is not something everyone can do and I understand that completely.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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I completely understand if you want to go with torrents but the example I gave was an extreme example and doesn't happen too often and a lot of people don't have the extra money to spend to anonymize their traffic.

[–]BraveSirRobin 0 points1 point ago

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You are far less likely to be targeted via streaming, I won't argue against that.

As I understand it, downloading only is a legal grey area, no cases have been won in court for someone only doing this. On the other hand, with uploading there is legal precedent. There are enough of them to keep the lawyers busy, so they go for the low hanging fruit.

However most avid torrent users will be members of private websites which are far less likely to be targeted than public ones.

While I tend to also only use private sites, I'm weary of this claim. If I were an industry guy tasked with bringing down p2p, I'd go for the private sites as that's where the hardcore users will be. Each individual user would have more infringements attached to them. Also, with private sites being ratio based, finding a bunch of seeders is easy.

Usenet is the future. (And the past. ;-) I get two weeks retention free on my ISPs server and if I miss that window I torrent it.

[–]acoustep 1 point2 points ago

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As I understand it, downloading only is a legal grey area, no cases have been won in court for someone only doing this. On the other hand, with uploading there is legal precedent. There are enough of them to keep the lawyers busy, so they go for the low hanging fruit.

As far as I'm aware you are spot on with this. I have heard that companies such as MPAA send out letters to random people trying to catch them out (with no actual evidence) and occasionally they take the bait.

If I were an industry guy tasked with bringing down p2p, I'd go for the private sites as that's where the hardcore users will be

That's exactly what I'd do, too. But they are not us, and they don't have the same experience that we share. They generally go for the private websites themselves and not the users. Unfortunate? Yes. But better than targeting us directly.

Usenet is the future. (And the past. ;-)

;)

[–]JustPlainRude 1 point2 points ago

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I've gotten C&D's for torrenting in the past. Streaming is a slightly safer option.

[–]Cronus6 0 points1 point ago

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"Slightly"?

I've never heard of or read about anyone getting into trouble for streaming or downloading from Megaupload etc (child porn not included of course, I'm sure they would nail you for that regardless of where, as well they should).

I've heard of metric shit-tons of people getting caught (myself included!) for torrents and/or other "p2p" methods. Some are even drug into court and fined heavily.

I'd go so far as to say it's "much" safer.

[–]JustPlainRude 0 points1 point ago

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Streaming isn't as easily observable as P2P transmission, agreed. However, the sites streaming to you certainly keep logs of who watches what. If some company managed to subpoena that data, they could certainly create some legal headaches. While this hasn't happened yet (to my knowledge), I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the future.

[–]LOLC4T 0 points1 point ago

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the problem isn't downloading/streaming, it is uploading/sharing. streaming is safe.

[–]5in1in5 1 point2 points ago

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Download HD movie from pirate bay, wait. Get 40-50 rar files adding up to 3-4 gigs. Unrar, wait. Now you have 6-8 gigs of space taken up with the rar files and compiled movie file. Finally watch.

Click play on HD movie on icefilms, wait a minute, watch.

No need to save files, delete files or compile files. All that and what DarkFiction said.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Yup and if those .rar's happen to have a password that you can only obtain by filling out some stupid survey on a spammer/marketting site... /facepalm.

[–]jmkogut 1 point2 points ago

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You people are just circle-jerking now. You do realize that multiple .rar shit doesn't fly anymore, right? People will comment that it's bullshit and stop seeding it, thus throwing it lower in the ranks than a torrent having just a single video file.

[–]frequentpooper 0 points1 point ago

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Can watch this directly from my Roku?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Unfortunately not.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago*

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Dunno, if it can stream from URL's like VLC can then maybe or if it has a browser that supports flash... the PS3 can do it to a certain extent. What I usually do is download from the divx section and then stream (using an app called Playback) from my Mac to the PS3.

[–]sunealoneal 0 points1 point ago

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This site used to be utter shit, so awesome they stepped it up a notch.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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If you are talking layout/design ya they just overhauled it a few months back, but I've been a member for years and I've never thought it was shit (except the front page -never go to the front page... forums only).

[–]sunealoneal 0 points1 point ago

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I think the last time I visited about 4 years ago? I just remembered their selection being a bit tiny, but I never visited the forums so that might've been it.

[–]DarkFiction[S] 0 points1 point ago

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Ya they did have quite a few pop-ups back then as well, they got rid of those a few years back since every has a pop-up blocker now anyways and I think they have enough user hits to self sustain without slimy ads now.

[–]Hooker_With_A_Penis 0 points1 point ago

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http://www.1channel.ch.....I just started using this site. So far, not bad.

[–]striketrue 0 points1 point ago

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Will be checking this out.

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This comment is only a bookmark

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what do I do on the iphone app?

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