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 ...

After shutting down for what appeared to be forever last fall, one of the most popular forks of Popcorn Time resurfaced last month, leading to much rejoicing among those who walk on the darker side of ...

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

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 ...

Pour one out for Popcorn Time today. The popular illegal streaming app has been deplatformed once again, it seems. Navigating to the service’s website displays its familiar cute little popcorn box — ...

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 ...

A Danish man has been handed down a six-month conditional sentence for merely sharing information about Popcorn Time, the once-popular torrent-based streaming client that was targeted for ...

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 ...