While the Popcorn Time developers appear willing to push back against these DMCA notifications, GitHub likely will stay neutral and let courts decide if the infringement notifications should be ...

Long before Torrents-Time allowed pirates to stream movies and TV shows directly from their browsers, Popcorn Time was the piracy tool of choice. The software made waves when it was first introduced, ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More For a brief moment, watching movies via BitTorrent was just as easy as ...

GitHub has shut down two repositories belonging to the video streaming BitTorrent client Popcorn Time after receiving a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA ...

With Popcorn Time going offline at the start of this week, amid legal issues and the subsequent split of its coding team, many feared that the “Netflix for pirates” streaming app had been permanently ...

Piracy concerns that Hollywood has are not unfounded and the emergence of a new tool that will revive Popcorn Time, called Torrents Time, could be its worst nightmare. Often called the "Netflix for ...

After posting what looked like a farewell message to its Twitter account on Friday, the widely used movie streaming website Popcorn Time shuttered its domain over supposed legal issues. Yet in its ...

PayPal-based assets of the companies behind Popcorn Time will be frozen until further notice, per a Virginia federal judge's preliminary injunction in a suit from several Hollywood companies who say ...

Popcorn Time, the open-source service that streams video content from torrenting sites, now supports TV shows and is available for Android devices. The updates marks a significant change from a few ...

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The developers behind Popcorn Time announced Friday that they are shutting down the streaming video service. They took to publishing platform Medium to explain their decision, saying that “we need to ...