Popcorn Time likes to live dangerously. The so-called “Netflix for pirates” is designed to make movie torrenting a mainstream experience, and is legally ambiguous at best. After shutting down ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More For a brief moment, watching movies via BitTorrent was just as easy as ...

One of the easiest ways to pirate movies and TV shows is back just in time for the great stay-at-home coronavirus quarantine party of 2020. Popcorn Time, the legendary app that was basically a Netflix ...

Torrenting movies isn’t exactly difficult to begin with. But when you take the already-popular ‘Netflix for pirates’ app Popcorn Time, and run it inside a browser with no install required, things get ...

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Just days after the service was taken down, Popcorn time-- a sort of Netflix for pirated content -- has popped back up again. The service has returned thanks to some online developers, continuing to ...

Pour one out for Popcorn Time today. The popular illegal streaming app has been deplatformed once again, it seems. Navigating to the service’s website displays its familiar cute little popcorn box — ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Ah, remember the good old days when Napster and KaZaa gave us all the mp3s we wanted and you could get any television show or movie for free (provided you were willing to ...

Most of us think of Netflix when we think of streaming movies and TV shows, but over the past year and a half, a competitor has emerged: one that’s almost as easy to use, doesn’t charge a thing, and — ...

Popcorn Time might be an extremely easy way to watch pirated movies and TV shows for free, but it’s not necessarily safe. Popcorn Time is a free program for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android that acts ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. One of ...

Behold the power of open-source software. After the untimely death of the original Popcorn Time, a so-called Netflix for pirated content, the project was forked several times on GitHub. And guess what ...