20 letter to shareholders, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote that “piracy continues to be one of our biggest competitors,” and referred to Popcorn Time by name, calling a graph showing its rising Google searches “sobering.” Neither Netflix nor Hulu responded to WIRED’s requests for comment.īut even if the service itself does develop an invincible peer-to-peer architecture, Popcorn Time’s developers may be personally vulnerable to a lawsuit or even criminal charges.
The MPAA declined to comment on any measures it’s taking against the new Popcorn Time. Documents revealed in last year’s Sony hack revealed that the Motion Picture Association of America boasted of a “major victory” in pressuring Popcorn Time’s original developers to scupper the service.
That road, it seems, points toward a collision course with Hollywood’s copyright lawyers. And once it started taking off … as it did from the start, all the love that we were getting from Popcorn Time users made us just keep on going without really stopping to think where this road is taking us.” “We just did it for the love of this project,” Pochoclin writes. It doesn’t charge for downloads, and neither its app nor its website display ads.
Pochoclin says offers this streaming service pro bono.
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