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Popcorn Time, a classic of piracy, closes definitively

The hacking platforms They have the peculiarity of not last too long until they are forced to close their door and make way for some new option. However, some really manage to stay in the minds of users for years and Popcorn Time has been one of them, although in 2022 it will no longer be possible to find it on the web.

Through the RIP words on its website, the current Popcorn Time version has communicated that it will stop working permanently. For those who do not know or do not remember it, it was the great piracy event in the middle of the last decade through the combination of BitTorrent downloads with a multimedia player to be able to view video content in a streaming experience.

Popcorn Time had been adrift for years

Popcorn Time was a big headache for official platforms for many years, to the point that Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, mentioned during 2015 that it was its main competitor, while companies like Sony Pictures spent many resources over the years to persecute those responsible.

A) Yes, in October 2015 the first official version (and the one that most came to use) closed surprisingly Due to various reasons, one of them due to the demands imposed by the American rights management association MPAA on some of its creators, while some internal divisions in the original team also did not help the platform to continue in operation.

In subsequent years, other people took over this initiative because, as it was an open source creation, anyone could access the tools that made a site with these characteristics work. The current domain that just confirmed its closure was “popcorn-time.tw”But there were also other “clones” over the years who never got anywhere near those successful days.

The truth is that the approach of users towards streaming services due to the comfort of use and the variety of offers has led piracy to the background in recent years (even on platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram). But nevertheless, recently some analyzes show an increase in P2P downloads due to the increase in exclusive productions and a greater number of services Which ones to choose from and which people are not willing to subscribe to.

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