The MPAA declined to comment on any measures it's taking against the new Popcorn Time. Documents revealed in last year’s Sony hack revealed that the Motion Picture Association of America boasted of a "major victory" in pressuring Popcorn Time’s original developers to scupper the service. That road, it seems, points toward a collision course with the Hollywood's copyright lawyers. (The anonymous developer asked us to use Popcorn Time's smiling popcorn-box mascot "Pochoclin" as his or her pseudonym.) Popcorn Time's masked spokesperson says the streaming movie and TV app is flourishing-in defiance of many of the world's most powerful copyright holders and EURid, the domain registrar that seized the original site's web domain last year. Today, Popcorn Time is growing at a rate that has likely surpassed the original, and the people behind it say they're working on changes designed to make the service virtually impervious to law enforcement.Īs Popcorn Time celebrated the first anniversary of its rebirth, WIRED chatted via email and instant message with a software developer from, one of the most popular of several reincarnations of Popcorn Time. But anonymous coders soon relaunched the copyright-flouting software. Hollywood quickly intervened, pressuring Popcorn Time's Argentinian developers to walk away from their creation. Popcorn Time was an instant hit when it launched just over a year ago: The video streaming service made BitTorrent piracy as easy as Netflix, but with far more content and none of those pesky monthly payments.
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