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 ...

The ultra-popular video piracy app Popcorn Time has already picked a fight with the combined powers of Hollywood's intellectual property lawyers. Now it's also entered into a cat-and-mouse game with ...

Popcorn Time is risen again, only this time it’s coming to a web browser near you. If you’re not familiar, Popcorn Time was a streaming entertainment platform that looked a lot like Netflix to the end ...

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Update by Caleb Denison 3-14-2014 – After making headlines for a couple days, Popcorn Time’s creators have taken the site down. According to ARS Technica, even though the creators maintain they were ...

Popcorn Time is one of the most fascinating sites on the Internet at the moment. It's a platform that allows people to access vast swathes of video content without paying for it, but with a clean, ...

One thing that iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have proven is that content makers can fight piracy by providing a better, easier service to paying customers. But what happens when piracy fights back ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Late last year, the organization accomplished its goal, as the original Popcorn Time fork was unceremoniously shut down. But the ...

Is Popcorn Time’s wild run coming to an end? One of the two biggest versions of the illegal streaming service, popcorntime.io, was reportedly shut down for good last week after a dispute between ...

When I wrote about Popcorn Time earlier this week, I said it wasn’t likely to disappear anytime soon despite its legally dubious nature. That turned out to be wrong, as the creators of Popcorn Time ...

Popcorn Time was an instant hit when it launched just over a year ago: The video streaming service made BitTorrent piracy as easy as Netflix, but with far more content and none of those pesky monthly ...

Think of Popcorn Time like Netflix, just with movies worth watching. Find a title and click “Watch It Now”. That’s it. The media catalog is impressive. Everything from first run movies to classics ...