Being content protected by copyright, the developers have not bothered to try to pass Apple's filters so that all users could enjoy this application from the App Store. Other developers were in charge of continuing with the project and thanks to this, we can enjoy countless movies on our iPhone / iPad without having to download them.Īlthough it has been a long time to arrive, at the end of August the developers announced that in a few days we could download the application, it is finally available, but only for devices that have Jailbroken. This service was born in Argentina and before the avalanche of complaints they received they decided to cancel the service, because they knew it was a losing battle. Popcorn Time works using the torrents that circulate on the internet without downloading them to our computer or device, via streaming. Multiple countries have, at times, banned the web domains associated with the application and, in some cases, people have been arrested and faced criminal charges for merely telling people where to find it on the web.Surely more than one of our readers like both movies and television series in general and surely you will also have knowledge of the Popcorn Time application, available for Android, Windows and Mac that allows us to watch movies, both new releases and "old", and television series in streaming, Netflix style but for free whenever we want. That same year, Popcorn Time also spawned a music industry equivalent - Aurous - which subsequently got sued into oblivion by the Record Industry Association of America. In 2015, the app inspired a bizarre lawsuit involving 11 unlucky people who had used it to download Adam Sandler’s godawful movie about a shapeshifting shoemaker, The Cobbler. The illicit nature of Popcorn Time and the obvious threat the pirating app has posed to the entertainment industry means that it has often been the subject of legal disputes.
(This most recently retired version was originally launched in early 2020 - just in time for the Covid-19 pandemic, when everybody had nothing better to do than sit around and stream themselves silly.)ĭownloading pirated files of copyrighted movies is obviously illegal (streaming them exists in something of a legally grey zone but is still mostly illegal) and, thus, the app’s life has always been a fraught one.
However, after only about a week - and a massive spike in public interest and positive press reception - Popcorn Time was forced to shut down (potentially as a result of law enforcement action), though admirers of the original immediately reworked its code into various forked iterations, and the project has lived on ever since via different development teams around the world.
The prospect of free, torrent-able movies on an easy-to-use interface obviously made the project an instant hit with folks around the world.
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