Of course, being that Popcorn Time is a piece of software used in the furthering of lawbreaking, as copyright infringement is against the law, the fact that the developers were making money off it, via subscriptions to the VPN service, caused fears that it would make the app a bigger target.

According to an article on TorrentFreak, the breakup happened over the integration of VPN.ht, an encrypted network service that protects users privacy, which had become a major revenue stream for the client. Trouble in PopcornTime.io cityĪrguably the most popular Popcorn Time fork, the desktop application available from PopcornTime.io, has had a bit of a shakeup as rumors surfaced that several key developers have left. It’s an all-in-one copyrighted media streaming service all available as a web app. Once the movie viewer is running, watchers can pause, play, seek, and exit back to the main page.

The selected movie starts immediately upon clicking that bottom. By clicking on one of the movie covers the details slide in from the side including a big “WATCH IT NOW” button. Visitors are greeted with a layout extremely similar to Popcorn Time with available movies displayed just like the app, except that genres and categories appear on the site. The new website is called Browser Popcorn and is a fork of the Popcorn Time project.

Of course users who watch copyrighted works (which is the mainstay of the app) violate the law when they do so–but that has not hurt the sheer popularity of the program.Īccording to BGR.com, Popcorn Time just got easier to watch: it’s now coming to the browser without the need for a plugin. The app, described as “Netflix for pirates,” uses the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol to stream movies in a fashion similar to other networks used by media pirates to get the movies they want. It has never been so easy to watch popular movies and TV shows on your computer without having to buy them, all made possible by the widely popular application Popcorn Time.

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