TechCrunch reached out to GitHub for clarification and comment. Or, perhaps, the latest developers see a commercial opportunity to make the program legit and are willing to square off with Hollywood on the open market. It’s possible that the new curators felt the heat that made the original developers step back. Several forks of the original still exist on GitHub. Its magic puts its users in a legal gray area since the program streams, and temporarily stores, copyrighted material on the viewer’s computer.Īt this point it’s unclear why Popcorn Time was removed from GitHub. Click a button and the latest blockbuster plays. Its utter simplicity makes a mockery of Hollywood’s current distribution model. Popcorn Time broke into the scene early last month. The latest build, version 2.8, still works without an issue. The program can still be found on various websites and torrent aggregators. Nothing ever totally disappears from the Internet. The latest popular fork of open source project is gone, but the program is far from dead. Popcorn Time, the so-called Netflix for pirated content, has vanished from its splashy website and GitHub home.
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