I think you should consider the possibility that he is not participating in this discussion in good faith.

> Popcorn Time is at its heart just a torrent client using streamed torrent download to pipe the result into a media player.

> You can just feed a torrent file or a magnet link into Popcorn Time and it will play.

This is what I intended to mean by 'the same thing'. Can you expound on technical reasons why it is different in such a way that advertising is not possible or is not likely?

The described technology is independent of the source of the torrent. Their relation is similiar to the relationship between a program and an OS. Yes, the OS permits the usage of the program but the OS is not responsible in any way for the program nor does it imply that the OS wants to make money off the profits of the program.

The moment Popcorn Time adds Ads, there will be a fork without them.

> The described technology is independent of the source of the torrent.

This also applies to bittorrent.

> The moment Popcorn Time adds Ads, there will be a fork without them.

I understand what you mean. You're thinking I'm claiming the ads would go inside the client? If you look up the chain of conversation, I said that the ads would go on the website that hosts the magnets/torrents.

We see the same thing with bittorrent. Ad free clients. Ad bannered websites. We should expect the same with popcorn time websites.

> Ad free clients. Ad bannered websites. We should expect the same with popcorn time websites.

This is what you're not understanding: There are no "Popcorn Time websites" (except for a source to download the client)

Popcorn Time is a combined torrent-client/media player/search engine. You don't have to go to any websites (with ads or otherwise), you can click on nice pretty movie-poster images or search from within the program itself. There aren't any ads in Popcorn Time, and you don't have to leave Popcorn Time to go find media. It is one unified, seamless user experience, equivalent to the Netflix app.

I see. I did not get that from the article (it looks like I misunderstood).

Thank you for clarifying further (without more downvote nukes).

It appears that adding ads, so long at there are many competing clients, would be difficult.

I was very wrong.

You don't need to access any website to use Popcorn Time.

Is the idea that the program has a means to search, verify and download torrent files outside of centralized magnet/torrent websites? I did not get this from the article.

I think you should try Popcorn Time. You know, for research purposes. ;)