Cacaoweb

Forums › Online streaming services › Cacaoweb

Rikkitic

Awrrr
18657 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#198099 26-Jun-2016 20:21

While I don’t torrent as I believe illegal downloading is going too far, I don’t have a problem using geo-unblocking to stream from other regions where content has been released for viewing. Tonight I was looking for a series episode that I missed and while searching I bumped into something called Cacaoweb. I haven’t heard of it before and it is described somewhere as ‘a combination of a BitTorrent program and a web application’. I’m not quite sure what is meant by this.

Can anyone tell me anything more about this? The interface is very streamlined and it doesn’t ‘feel’ like a torrent client but I don’t have much experience with these. How does this work and what does it do?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

freitasm

BDFL - Memuneh
79254 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator

ID Verified

Trusted

Geekzone

Lifetime subscriber

#1580768 26-Jun-2016 22:55

It seems to be P2P, not much information on their site and their support forum is full of spam. Pass.

Rikkitic

Awrrr
18657 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#1580774 26-Jun-2016 23:10

Ok, thanks.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

1101

3122 posts

Uber Geek

#1580938 27-Jun-2016 10:43

Rikkitic:

While I don’t torrent as I believe illegal downloading is going too far, I don’t have a problem using geo-unblocking to stream from other regions where content has been released for viewing.

so , one form of piracy is OK , just because you see it as OK ? selective morals :-)

But anyway , you are NOT going to get a free streaming service of the programs you want.
IT WILL BE A PIRATED VERSION , if its one of those bogus streaming services . The few I looked at were just a nice interface for pirated torrents

Most newer TV programs are not released for free viewing by everyone anywhere . Some one owns them, they were not released as 'open source' with public adfree viewing.
So why would anyone think they would be available via a bogus streaming service unless it was pirated

freitasm

BDFL - Memuneh
79254 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator

ID Verified

Trusted

Geekzone

Lifetime subscriber

#1580949 27-Jun-2016 11:02

Geo-unblocking has not been proved as a form of piracy. People are actually paying to legal content distributors for access to content - comparing that to piracy is a stretch and no one has taken this to courts to clarify. So just because you think it is, doesn't mean it is.

Note my previous paragraph I mentioned "legal content distributors" not unidentified sites that distribute latest and greatest movies/TV without any obvious rights to do so.

Rikkitic

Awrrr
18657 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#1580973 27-Jun-2016 12:01

So here we go again. This is becoming a very tired argument but I will try once more anyway. I once bought a book that was censored, but not banned. I paid the full price for it and was glad to do so, but then I also downloaded it from a torrent to get the censored bits. No doubt the torrented copy was stolen, but I had already paid for it so the content owner did not lose out from my download. You can call that whatever you like, but I am comfortable with it.

With geo-unblocking, I either pay for the content in the region where I stream it, or I get it free from public broadcasting sites where it is made freely available. In this specific case, the program in question is being broadcast on Sky, for which we have a valid subscription, so we are paying to watch it. I happened to miss an episode and it is not otherwise available to us so I looked for it on some public broadcasting sites like SBS and I was fortunate enough to find it on a European site so I downloaded the subtitles and watched it. The remaining episodes I will watch on Sky since I now know when they are being broadcast.

This is not piracy and it is not selective morals. It is what many of us here and elsewhere have been advocating for, the right to choose when, where and how we pay for and view our content. I paid for what I watched, I merely indulged in an extreme form of time-shifting. I did not view it for free and it has obviously already been released for viewing here since Sky is broadcasting it. I think you need to be a little less quick to jump to conclusions and cast aspersions.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos