Its creators want to openly challenge Hollywood studios, Netflix, HBO, Hulu, and other streaming platforms to democratize content further, given that “people will risk fines, lawsuits, and whatever consequences that may come just to be able to watch a recent movie in slippers.” But while it opens up a vast breadth of pirated content, the real mission of the Popcorn Time app may be circumventing Apple’s control over what apps can and cannot be installed on an iPhone or iPad through its App Store. At the time, that groups claimed that the service was “legal” after checking the laws “four times.” Maybe they should have checked the law a fifth time.īecause Popcorn Time was open-source, it found new life in the current versions or “forks” available for computers and mobile devices. Yet, unlike Netflix and other streaming providers who pay for the rights to the content they offer, Popcorn Time doesn’t pay a dime for all the movies and TV shows on its app.īelieve it or not, the people behind the new app are even more defiant than the Argentine developers that created the original Popcorn Time website, which was forced to shut down in March 2014. It’s a pirating service designed to make downloading illegal torrents of popular movies and TV shows as easy as watching Netflix.
The legal argument for Popcorn Time’s video-streaming app is essentially nonexistent. “We always felt Apple’s totalitarian approach to their ecosystem was wrong.”
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