MPAA Pulls “Popcorn Time” Repositories Off GitHub
Found on Torrentfreak on Monday, 14 July 2014
The software became an instant hit by offering BitTorrent-powered streaming in an easy to use Netflix-style interface. Needless to say this has been a thorn in the side for Hollywood.
Earlier this week the team behind the Time4Popcorn fork informed us that they have gathered millions of users over the past several months, and that the application is being downloaded tens of thousands of times per day.
This just underlines how doomed the current entertainment industry is. An official service, similar to the Popcorn forks, along with a low fee for movies would earn them millions; but no, they just keep crying and whining to defend their old model making dubious claims such as lost CD/DVD/BD sales. Funny enough that they need the "Boston strangler 2.0" for their defense.