New service for watching movies from torrents directly in the browser

A new service for watching movies from a torrent directly in the browser appeared on the Internet. MovBucket offers broadcasting the video stream of your choice to your browser window. The video must be set using a magnet link - this is a unique file identifier in peer-2-peer networks using the BitTorrent protocol.

MovBucket server itself does the content downloading work, and the video stream that is played by the JWPlayer player is already given to the browser. The service even offers to select the desired file from the group, if they are distributed in one package. Only video in MP4 and FLV format is supported. Rewinding video is not available - only pause.

The service does not advertise torrents, does not post links to content and does not take money for its work, so it will be more difficult to find fault with it from a legal point of view than Popcorn Time. According to the explanations of the author of the server, the programmer from fraternal Serbia, Milan Kraguevich, his server does not change the content of the video, but acts only as a proxy.

A similar functionality Jocker.org service already appeared last year. However, it was quickly closed at the request of copyright holders and has not opened since. Claims to it were described as follows:

- illegal downloading of content without the permission of the copyright holder
- storage and caching of parts of the content
- Conversion and playback of content to users through a video stream in a browser.

Update : the author of the service shortly after the release of the article changed the system so that to use it you had to install a plug-in for the browser. However, it turned out that he reads in Russian, and after reading critical comments on the article, he changed the system back, while limiting the simultaneous number of threads sent by the server.