Technology has moved the yard sticks yet again. If you’ve ever downloaded a movie via a torrent file you know that you’re going to be waiting anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour before you’re watching your flick. This download speed is dependent on a number of criteria including the file size of the movie, number of seeders vs leechers, and your network speed.
Well now if you want to watch that flick you no longer have to bother even downloading the file. Just paste the magnetic link into the blank field on Joker.org and you’re moving is shortly streamed in your browser. Already have a torrent file on your computer? No problem, just point Joker.org to it and you’re good to go. The cool thing is you call also make the movie fool screen when playing so if you’re steaming to your TV or projector you get a seamless video experience.
I gave the Joker a shot with a ‘Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs” torrent link I found on the net. Copied the magnetic link into the field. Watched an ad for 10 seconds and my movie started playing. I resized to full screen and besides a single buffer early on it played really well and it looked great.
I tried a couple music files, but it didn’t play nice. If they provided this functionality this thing would be a monster. The guy who put it together should sell it to The Pirate Bay. They’d make sure it stay up forever.
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