It has been difficult for the film industry to get the Popcorn Time site taken down since, in the US, simply downloading the software is legal, while using it to download or stream a pirated film is illegal. In Denmark, two men were arrested because they ran websites that provided information on how to use Popcorn Time. Netflix called the rise of Popcorn Time in the Netherlands 'sobering.' In its letter to shareholders in January, Netflix wrote, 'Piracy continues to be one of our biggest competitors.' It is not only Hollywood studios that are alarmed. On August 16, the production company of the Adam Sandler movie The Cobbler sued 11 Popcorn Time users in a nearly identical lawsuit.

'Survivor has been downloaded… hundreds of thousands of times with over 10,000 instances of piracy traced to locations in the State of Oregon.' 'Popcorn Time exists for one purpose and one purpose only: to steal copyrighted content,' the company's complaint to the court said. Survivor Productions, which made Survivor, a 2015 spy thriller starring Pierce Brosnan, filed a complaint against 16 Popcorn Time users in the US District Court in Oregon on August 20. With the site's success, film production companies have sued users of the service. Abad and other developers say they don't know how many times the software has been downloaded, but the site has 141,000 fans on Facebook, and nearly 40,000 Twitter followers. Popcorntime.io is the flagship among these sites, and Abad supports and considers it to be the true successor to the original Popcorn Time.

I never wanted to get into serious trouble because of this project.'Īlthough Abad and his team shut down the original Popcorn Time, several international 'fork' sites - sites that use the original open-source code but continue to modify and build on it - have continued to thrive on the web. 'Popcorn Time was a fun thing that we created for our friends, for our families, but it became too big. 'I don't know how he found us,' Abad said. had visited each of their professional LinkedIn webpages. They soon found out that a lawyer from Warner Bros. While his father told Abad he should make money from the site, his mother became worried, as was Abad and the other developers.

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