Popcorn Time closes due to “threat of legal prosecution and backroom fraud”

The cross-platform application Popcorn Time for watching movies using torrents, which has become sensationally popular just a few days after the release, ceases to exist. This was officially reported by the project team on its website. There is no longer a description of the program, nor links to downloads - only a farewell article in which the authors write that the project is being closed, because " this experiment put us before the need to conduct endless disputes about piracy and copyright, and also created a threat of legal prosecution and behind-the-scenes frauds, which make us feel in danger while doing what we love. We don’t want to take part in this battle . "

The Popcorn Time application is a very simple and easy to use torrent client and a catalog of films available on various torrent trackers, with subtitles and metadata. After selecting a movie, the built-in torrent tracker started downloading with support for the viewing function during the download. Thus, if you have a fast Internet connection, you can watch almost any movie by clicking on the catalog a couple of times. Beta version of Popcorn Time was available for Linux, Windows 7+ and MacOS X 10.7+. The source code for the application was published on Github. The Popcorn Time repository is still available. For several days of its existence, he scored more than 4,000 stars and almost one and a half thousand forks.