![]() They claim they were given no notice of the domain being removed.Īccording to TorrentFreak, an email sent by EURid said that the domain was suspended because of suspicion that inaccurate contact details were used to register the domain name.Ĭonsidering that Time4Popcorn's developers are anonymous to prevent themselves from being caught, there are obvious problems if the registrar insists on proof of identity. ![]() On 9 October, the fork was suspended by the EURid registry, apparently due to some sort of "legal investigation taking place in Belgium", according to the developers. ![]() Now the service is run by separate teams of anonymous volunteer developers around the world who have made new versions ('forks') based on the original code, with Time4Popcorn being the most successful. But it was abandoned in March after Kim Dotcom, who had been hosting the software's installer on his Mega file-sharing service, took the file offline after supposedly receiving copyright infringement takedown notices from the movie industry. It was originally built by 20 developers on GitHub to be a version of Netflix that used pirated films for its content. The app features an intuitive user interface and was translated into 32 languages, so users could avoid downloading pirated content using BitTorrent and instead stream it in a range of qualities. The European fork of Popcorn Time, Time4Popcorn is one of the most used in the world, and is currently installed on 4 million devices worldwide, including PC, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS (but only for jailbroken devices). Notorius illegal movie streaming service Popcorn Time is back online after being taken down by a European domain registry Popcorn TimeĪuthorities have clamped down on Popcorn Time, a popular movie torrent streaming service nicknamed the "Netflix for pirates", by getting its website domain suspended, but the service is now back up after four days of down time.
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