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