Torrent front end Popcorn Time made streaming movies free and easy, so of course it’s gone
For about four days “Popcorn Time” lived, opening an easy-access door to streaming movies via torrents, but now it’s gone. Aggregating info from APIs (YIFY for torrents, OpenSubtitles for subs and TheMovieDB for metadata) its developers quickly pushed out open source apps for Linux, OS X and Windows. The team explained that it’s meant to be as easy as using Netflix, and insisted no legal problems were incoming because it didn’t host any content locally or charge anything. Whether Hollywood studios agreed (doubtful) won’t be known, as a “Goodbye” statement on the Popcorn Time website says the project is over “because we need to move on with our lives.” If this sounds like a dream setup however, all is not lost — TorrentFreak has heard from the YTS movie torrent site that it’s picking up the baton and expects to release an installer “shortly.”
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: TechCrunch, Popcorn Time (1), (2), TorrentFreak
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