Popcorn Time: End titles for the popular app that made movie piracy easy

He closed it popcorn Time, the application that was once popular because it made it movie piracy as easy as tracking it Netflix.

ΟThe original developers downloaded the service and left the project just a few days after it launched. 2014. But since the project was open source, other developers were able to continue where they left off, and it has since been killed and revived a few more times.

It remains to be seen if popcorn Time has now disappeared permanently, but it seems that the biggest factor that has contributed to its most recent collapse is the diminished interest in implementation.

On its website, the developers posted a search graph "popcorn timeFor the last seven years. While the app enjoyed a ton of searches in the months following its release 2015, the graph shows a sharp decrease in interest until 2016. Its popularity continued to decline and it never really recovered after that, at least on the basis of Google Trends.



In accordance with Bloomberg, the team behind popcorn Time announced its closure in one Email. Although they did not say whether the law enforcement action was a factor behind their decision to close the application this time, the popcorn Time has had conflicts with the law in the past. The original release may have been shut down after authorities intervened, and Hollywood studios even sued individual users who allegedly downloaded and distributed copies of movies illegally.

The developers associated with popcorn Time have talked in the past about how they are not responsible for piracy themselves, because the service does not actually host any content. Instead, it relies on a sharing system peer-to-peer and provides only one way for users to access content hosted on other people's computers.

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