Legendary Piracy App Popcorn Time Comes Back From the Dead During Coronavirus Pandemic

[steven36]

Popcorn Time, the 'Netflix for piracy,' has suddenly come back online while much of the world locks themselves in their homes.

 

 

Popcorn Time, the highly popular and extremely-easy-to-use "Netflix for piracy" service, came back Tuesday after a years-long hiatus. The move comes as people around the world are quarantined or being asked to stay in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Popcorn Time allows people to stream movies using BitTorrent, without actually downloading the movies or worrying about finding a tracker to use. Essentially, it removes any torrenting learning curve, allowing people to (illegally) stream movies and television shows from an easy-to-use app.

 

Because it’s so simple to use, Popcorn Time became instantly popular upon its release in 2014 and was immediately targeted by the movie industry. The service was shut down multiple times by court order, police raids, and IP blocks all over the world between 2014 and now; the open source app was forked several times and has worked intermittently, but has been largely offline over the last few years.

 

Within the last couple days, a new version of Popcorn Time popped up on Popcorntime.app, version 4.0. The new app works just as well as earlier versions of the app, is free, and implores people to use virtual private networks to avoid having their use of the app detected by their internet service providers. The app has been released while many around the world are quarantined, and also comes at a time when piracy is becoming more popular, generally speaking. Other versions of Popcorn Time are also currently active, but the user interface of this one and its release appear to be closely affiliated with earlier Popcorn Time projects, based on domain redirects and urls.

 

Brand new movies and shows are currently available on the app, including Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Joker, Sonic the Hedgehog, as well as series like Westworld, Better Call Saul, Futurama, and hundreds more. We’ll see how long this version lasts, but for those who are willing to pirate movies, its release couldn’t have come at a better time.

 

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[unknownerror]

Lots of problems with this new version according to reddit so bear that in mind in case you are updating.

[steven36]

17 hours ago, unknownerror said:

Lots of problems with this new version according to reddit so bear that in mind in case you are updating.

Stremio is the best app  if you want to stream  torrents anyway it let you play them in VLC like Popcorn  does but it also lets you   play them in MPV  . Also  your not confined to  just  watching  small YTS releases lilke you are on Popcorn  , You can install  1337x  , RARBG  , TPB  and other Addons  so you can even watch big releases. Popcorn time was good   back when it was new in 2014 but its been  replaced  by lots of other apps . Kodi  , Stremio , APKs  and other  cross platform  webapps .   I don't see  no need to install Popcorn time when Stremio do everything it do and more.

 

PS:  Stremio has very little ads but you can block them by adding  this to your host file

0.0.0.0 market.moonicorn.network

Most system wide adblockers on android have this added  anyway because Steven Black  added  it to his list last year .

 

To get  the addons  you have to use Pimp My Stremio   to install  them  . Stremio is like Kodi  they don't  host infringing addons  so there  not liable for what you stream  because addons are community maintained  .  The problem  with   Popcorn and Pirate apks  there infringing apps all by themselves .Kodi even got addons  that have no infringing scrapers . You have to  install community maintained  scrapers for the addoon to have sources  they do this so ACE  can't take there  addon offline. 

[unknownerror]

Yeah I have been installing Stremio on my friends' pcs and it's definitely the way to go right now. I didn't know about pimp my stremio though so thank you for sharing that!