In 2014, the Motion Picture Association of America came after the original project and managed to take it offline, including by seizing domain names by court orders as far as Canada. It has been viewed as an alternative, free, and therefore copyright-controversial alternative to Netflix. Popcorn Time, a fork of a fork of the original project shuttered amid copyright claims, not only integrates a media player into the multi-platform client, but crucially streams free movies and TV shows – using torrents from several sites. The account is home to code for Popcorn Software's multi-platform versions of its BitTorrent client, Popcorn Time, and the project's website.įor now at least, the one repository that is unavailable due to the DMCA complaint is Popcorn Time's desktop version.

If you're tired of censorship, cancel culture, and the erosion of privacy and civil liberties subscribe to Reclaim The Net.Īt least one of the repositories on the Popcorn Software account on GitHub has been shut down due to a DMCA strike that looks like a case of copyright system abuse, since the code in question itself contained no copyrighted material.

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