Popcorn Time

Popcorn Time shuts down, reflecting shift in piracy trends

US BitTorrent app Popcorn Time, which provided access to pirated movies and TV shows and was once hailed as the ‘Netflix of piracy’, has shut down in a move that some observers see as reflecting the growing availability of legal streaming content and consumers’ willingness to pay for it. Popcorn Time launched in 2014 and […]

‘Netflix of piracy’ Popcorn Time makes a comeback

Popcorn Time – the platform dubbed ‘Netflix for piracy’ – has made a comeback after a years-long absence. The platform effectively acts as a user-friendly portal to illegal torrents of films and series, presenting them in a streamlined fashion that even allows users to select the quality of the stream up to 4K. It initially […]