The people behind one of the most popular Popcorn Time forks have announced a new contribution to the BitTorrent ecosystem. With beating “content monopolies” a stated aim, the team has launched Popcorn Tracker, a new stand-alone BitTorrent tracker to serve…
Popcorn Time Goes International With Multi-Language Dubbing
One of the most popular Popcorn Time forks has added a feature that will give it even broader appeal among its international audience. In addition to its usual subtitling, the variant has added support for multi-language dubbing, something that should…
MPAA takedown efforts target legal Popcorn Time spin-offs
Popcorn Time’s ‘legal’ spin-off Butter is at risk of losing access to its codebase hosted at GitHub. The developer platform has informed several projects that some of their code has been flagged by the MPAA as copyright infringing, including a…
Pirate Bay, KickAssTorrent, Others To Become Massive FREE Streaming Music Services “In Weeks”
As we reported on Friday, thanks to a new plug-in from Torrents-Time, Pirate Bay has just become the world’s biggest free video streaming site, and others like KickAssTorrent have pledged to follow suit. We speculated that free music streaming was…
Torrents Time Movie Streamer, Available On The Pirate Bay And Popcorn Time, Haunted By Serious Security Flaws
Torrents Time is a new browser plug-in available that enables users to stream pirated movies to their computer from the most popular torrent websites. It’s a totally new method of piracy that lets people avoid the questionable third-party apps that have always…
‘Netflix for Pirates’ just got a lot better: Stream movies in your web browser
“Netflix for Pirates,” aka Popcorn Time, is a very popular movie streaming app that’s available on a bunch of platforms, including iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows. The streaming service offers users quick access to pirated movies in a simple, sleek interface…
A new hurdle for ‘Netflix for Pirates’ app Popcorn Time: U.K. moves to ban it
Popcorn Time, also informally known as “Netflix for pirates,” is a very popular video-streaming application for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS that offers users quick access to free movies and TV shows using a very sleek interface. However, the service isn’t legal, as it…
Popcorn Time app for streaming video torrents launches on iOS, no jailbreak required
Popcorn Time, an app for streaming video torrents, is now available for iOS. The app has technically been available for iOS before, but it required jailbreaking your device first. As of today’s version 1.2 beta release, that’s no longer the…
What Is Nacho Time? Popcorn Time-Inspired Movie Streamer Blocked As Interest Grows
Nacho Time, the browser plug-in that allowed users to stream new movies illegally, was knocked offline Thursday, only days after its debut. The video service earned favorable comparisons with the streaming service Popcorn Time, with reviewers lauding Nacho Time for…
Hollywood should be very afraid of Popcorn Time, the “Netflix for piracy”
In January Netflix, the online video streaming site, used its quarterly letter to shareholders (pdf) to take aim at a rival. Not premium pay TV channel HBO, with which it is locked in an increasingly bitter battle for the best…
Popcorn Time “fan pages” nuked by anti-piracy outfit
Six websites setup as “fan pages” to the popular Popcorn Time software have been shut down by anti-piracy group BREIN. All reportedly reached a financial settlement with the Dutch group and currently display a notice advising against the use of…
Netflix says Popcorn Time’s easy-peasy movie piracy is a serious threat
Netflix says it has more to worry about than just an upcoming cable-free, standalone streaming service from HBO. The company claims it’s also competing against pirate platforms such as Popcorn Time. Netflix made the comments in a letter to shareholders released…
Hollywood’s Streaming Nemesis Popcorn Time Gets A VPN, But You’ll Have To Pay For It
Christmas is a time for family, which by extension makes it a period for sitting back and watching a lot of movies and TV. Maybe that’s why Sony released “The Interview” on Christmas Day. That controversial flick will set you…
Hollywood tries to crush Popcorn Time, again
Hollywood still has concerns over the popular Popcorn Time application. One of the main “Netflix for Pirates” forks has just moved through three different hosting companies in two weeks, after an anti-piracy group raised alerts. In addition, a new leak…
Time4Popcorn claims it’s now impossible to take down
A few weeks after Time4Popcorn, one of the most-used forks of the popular torrent-streaming service Popcorn Time, had its domain name suspended by the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EURid), affecting existing users of the service, the team behind…
Popcorn Time Finds A New Home After The EURid Pulled Its Domain
When your product streams pirated content, it’s safe to expect some complications along the way. The Time4Popcorn fork of the popular Popcorn Time project recently had to find a new domain following the sudden removal of time4popcorn.eu. But the developers…
Popcorn Time now available as iOS app
When the Popcorn Time app brought BitTorrent streaming to the masses this year the “Netflix for Pirates” gained the hearts of millions. Today, one of the most popular Popcorn Time forks expands the potential user base further still with the…
Popcorn Time installed on 1.4 million devices in the U.S.
One of the most-used Popcorn Time forks has revealed the global popularity of the “Netflix for pirates.” The application has the largest user base in the United States, with 1.4 million installs and 100,000 active users. The Netherlands and Brazil…