The latest bane of anti-piracy authorities is the brainchild of 15-year-old Milan Kragujevic from Serbia. What he made is a browser-based torrent service of Popcorn Time that makes Internet piracy easier than ever. He seems to have cloned the original program before it was shut down for obvious legal reasons, The Verge reported.
Forking apps, or replicating them, is the "never-ending game of cat-and-mouse between piracy advocates" and the pirates themselves. Popcorn Time, for instance, has been reincarnated several times and in many forms already since it first began. It was also recently headlined that core members of PopcornTime.io were breaking apart, leaving the future of that site and the smartphone app uncertain.
Pirates all over the world are rejoicing then at the birth of Popcorn Time's browser-ready form that can be accessed with no installs or logins required. It can be accessed via browserpopcorn.xyz. Previous versions of a browser-ready Popcorn Time failed because of reliance on third-party services. This newest clone relies on the sea of torrents to power its movies, Gizmodo reported.
Kragujevic wrote on Product Hunt, "I live in a country where copyright law is almost nonexistant, and simply I don't care." He added, I will keep moving the website, changing domains and providers ... I don't need to earn a single penny from it. I just want to do it because I believe that piracy will eventually cause the streaming bubble to pop, and the movie studios will realize that."
Netflix considers Popcorn Time in all its versions a serious threat to its business. What is interesting is Popcorn Time's technology is nothing new. It uses torrents. People who have no idea what seeds and peers are, however, taken in with the ease of use of the various sites, programs, and apps which all share the same name, Silicon Angle noted.
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