8 Domectic Alternatives To Netflix

While the video streaming facility Netflix made a huge splash abroad, its time in India has made less of an impact than expected. It isn’t that the service is not popular, however the lack of local content means that many users have turned to Indian alternatives. Here are some streaming sites that have been rivaling Netflix.

BIGFlix

Launched by Reliance when Netflix first entered the Indian market, BIGFlix offers a range of Indian origin content from a variety of languages. Users of the app can watch clips to earn BIGFlix coins, which can be used to then watch movies of your choice. However the movie will only be available for 24 hours after you pay for it. Thus creating a bit of a BIGFix!

Spuul

Another such server, Spuul also offers content that is produced in India. Users can choose from not only Bollywood content but also regional language movies that are generally less than 60MB. Using PayPal or online credit and debit cards, you can use Spuul to watch a movie as it downloads in the background.

Hotstar

Created by Star TV, Hotstar currently offers only content that belongs to Star. With a wide selection of old and new movies, TV shows and even sports events, this service is a strong rival to Netflix. Those who subscribe to the premium version can even watch the latest of popular American shows and movies.

BoxTV

The BoxTV app is another source for users to download TV shows and movies from a variety of regional languages and English too. This service is accessible through email and must be linked to your Facebook account.

Wynk Movies

Wynk is a service that links a range of channels to stream from, including Sony LIV, Dailymotion, Eros Now, YouTube and HOOQ. You can now pick and choose your favourite movies from different sites and create your own playlist.

YuppTV

YuppTV is simply put, a way to access content from television channels in real time. Accessible from your smartphone, you can also choose to binge watch any TV shows that you may have missed in the last week. While it is not a great option for watching movies, TV soap addicts will love this app.

MyPlex

This is another way to watch live TV, however MyPlex also offers users the option of streaming local and international movies and other videos online. Users can create a schedule of their favourite show timings using this app.

Eros Now

Similar to Hotstar, Eros Now allows users to download and stream music videos and movies produced by Eros Now. You can choose from Bollywood and a wide variety of other regional content while using this service.

Mark Zuckerberg And His Wife Just Invested $3bn To Cure All Diseases

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have pledged more than $3 billion towards a plan to cure all diseases in the lifetime of their 10-month-old daughter.

The Facebook CEO and his wife, who pledged to give away 99 per cent of their wealth to good causes last year, said they will invest the $3 billion (2.3bn) into research on curing the world’s diseases through their philanthropy organization, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

At a press event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Priscilla Chan said: “By investing in science today, we hope to build a future in which all of our children can build long and rewarding lives.”

 Zuckerberg said The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is already ‘building a world-class engineering team’ to help scientists and experts research diseases.

The goal, which they are unlikely to see accomplished in their lifetime, is to ‘cure, prevent or manage all disease’ in the next 80 or so years, Business Insider reports.

Zuckerberg said in an interview with Associated Press:

So if you even just assume that we’ll be able to continue to make progress on that same trajectory, then that implies that by the end of this century we will have been able to solve most of these types of things.

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Zuckerberg emphasised ‘that this isn’t something where we just read a book and decided we’re going to do.’

He said: “We spend 50 times more on health care treating people who are sick than we spend on science research (to cure) diseases so that people don’t get sick in the first place.”

“Today, just four kinds of diseases cause the majority of deaths,” Zuckerberg added in a posting on his Facebook page, citing cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases and neurological diseases, adding: “We can make progress on all of them with the right technology.”

As part of the investment, a $600m research center in San Francisco called the Biohub will be built in partnership with Stanford, the University of California, and Berkeley.

TorrentHound Shuts Down, Another Big Torrent Site Bites The Dust

TorrentHound has decided to shut down its popular torrent site, voluntarily. "Finito," the site's founder informed us in a brief message. Following the demise of KickassTorrents and Torrentz, the surprise shutdown means that three of the ten most visited torrent sites at the beginning of the year are now offline.

thFounded in 2007, TorrentHound.com has been around for nearly a decade.

With millions of visitors per month the site enjoyed a fairly large userbase, but it never reached the status of giants such as The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, and KAT.

That said, copyright holders had no trouble finding the site. Over the years TorrentHound became the target of various industry complaints and the site was blocked in several countries. Nevertheless, it always remained online, until today.

A few hours ago the site’s ‘founder’ sent us an email with an ultra-short message: “Finito.”

A quick look at the website shows that this isn’t a prank. TorrentHound is the latest large torrent site to keel over this year.

At TorrentFreak we have been keeping a close eye on the torrent ecosystem for more than a decade, but never have we seen so many large sites going offline in such a short period.

TorrentHound follows the ‘example’ of KickassTorrents and Torrentz, which went offline in July and August respectively. 

Neither Torrentz nor TorrentHound have commented in detail on their surprise shutdowns. However, the fact that they followed shortly after KickassTorrents’ alleged operators were inducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, may not be a total coincidence.

It’s unlikely that TorrentHound was facing concrete legal pressure as it’s currently linking to various “not terrible” alternative torrent sites on its current homepage.

We asked our TorrentHound contact to shed some light on his decision and we will add an update if a response comes in.

“It’s a combination of less traffic, less revenue and our bills piling up. Then add on constantly getting bugged by anti piracy agents, just wasn’t worth the headache anymore.”