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 developers. Initially, Browser Popcorn was going to switch from being a Popcorn Time for the web to a genuine, legal movie recommendation site but that plan changed pretty quickly, with the site now handed over to a new developer and serving pirated material once again.
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With a potential lawsuit looming, several of the core developers for the torrent-streaming site left the team.
After the happy announcements of our little Butter brother, we have darker news to share. “In the last few days someone has been tempering with our infrastructure, mainly our DNS service, and we can’t convince our provider Gandi.net that we are us and want to stay online”, representatives for Popcorn Time told.
PopcornTime.io, the most popular website affiliated with the piracy brand, announced Friday it will shut down permanently.
“This new project, hosted on GitHub, is basically your beloved Popcorn Time stripped down of the parts that made people wary”, the new Project Butter team writes.
“We’re doing our best to maintain the service but today we can’t give any timeline of things getting better”.
So the question is: Is Popcorn Time dead? the answer is both yes and no. While this version is no more available, another equally popular version called Time4Popcorn remains available at popcorn-time.se domain name. “I deleted any logs that can be harmful for any other [developer]”.
Butter isn’t in the clear either, as it is also experiencing a website shutdown.
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Popcorn Time first launched in 2014.
