Popcorn Time: The “Netflix of Piracy” Is Dead, Developers Announce(independent.co.uk)
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Popcorn Time: The “Netflix of Piracy” Is Dead, Developers Announce
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/popcorn-time-netflix-piracy-download-movies-tv-b1987129.html
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This article blows. Popcorn Time is just a torrent client with a built-in streaming video player. It can't be killed. Also, that screenshot is from a fake Popcorn Time website. The official website is down at the moment, but the official GitHub repository is still alive and well: https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop
At first I thought this was referring to the sharing site PTP which would have been bigger news.
It's unfortunate that Popcorn Time hasn't seen more popularity. Though, I know other apps for streaming torrents that are actually in the App Store and Google Play store have beat out PT for the "piracy market." Netflix was more convenient than piracy and imo killed a lot of piracy by being a better value than pirating.
But know, to watch the popular shows you need to have
- Netflix
- Hulu
- Paramount Plus
- Peacock
- Discovery Plus
- HBO Max
- Disney+
- Apple TV Plus
It's a mad scramble for rights holders to pull their content off of existing platforms to start their own, and I'm not sure that the value of these services is greater than that of piracy for folks at this point.
But know, to watch the popular shows you need to have
- Netflix
- Hulu
- Paramount Plus
- Peacock
- Discovery Plus
- HBO Max
- Disney+
- Apple TV Plus
It's a mad scramble for rights holders to pull their content off of existing platforms to start their own, and I'm not sure that the value of these services is greater than that of piracy for folks at this point.
I personally always thought of the Covenant Kodi plugin as "the Netflix of Piracy". I would pay good money for a legit service that offered the same convenient access to content that it did, but the market is incapable of delivering such a thing. I would switch back to it for my TV viewing if the media companies hadn't done such a thorough job of dismantling the decentralized network of streaming sources behind it.
Now it is just easier grab the appropriate plugins for Kodi and browse and play away
A more popular alternative has been https://www.stremio.com/ with torrent plugins.