Popcorn Time closed due to "the threat of legal persecution and backstage fraud"

Popcorn Time cross-platform application for watching movies using torrents, which became sensationally popular just a few days after the release, ceases to exist. This is officially announced by the project team on its website. There are no program descriptions or download links anymore - just a farewell article in which the authors write that the project is closed, since " this experiment put us in front of the need to endless debates about piracy and copyright, as well as created a threat of legal prosecution and backstage frauds that make us feel in danger of doing what we love. We don’t want to take part in this battle . "

Popcorn Time is a very simple and easy-to-use torrent client and a catalog of movies available on various torrent trackers, with subtitles and metadata. After selecting the movie, the built-in torrent tracker began downloading with the support of the viewing function during the download. In this way, if you have a fast Internet connection, you can watch almost any movie by clicking a mouse in the catalog a couple of times. The beta version of Popcorn Time was available for Linux, Windows 7+ and MacOS X 10.7+. Sources of the application have been published on Gitkhab. The Popcorn Time repository is still available. In the few days of its existence, he scored more than 4,000 stars and almost fifteen hundred forks.