Once revealed, those 11 will stand accused of violating the Copyright Act. The complaint (PDF) was filed on 16 August and is looking for a subpoena to force Comcast to reveal the identities of 11 users behind certain IP addresses. Skip across the Atlantic and on out to Oregon, and you’ll find that a criminal complaint connected to Popcorn Time was recently filed in Oregon District Court. Their sites have been shut down, with their domains placed under the control of the state prosecutor. The men stand accused of – and reportedly have confessed to – having distributed guides on how to obtain illegal content online. Thus there is hopefully a deterrent effect against feeling confident that you can sit wherever you want and try to implement such things. This has consequences and it also conveys the message that this behavior is illegal. It shows that can be revealed by the police.

Inspector Michael Hellensberg of the Danish fraud squad told local media that the case was significant because:

It’s a whack-a-mole game though, as forks of the immensely popular open-source project just keep springing up.Īccording to TorrentFreak, on Tuesday, 18 August, local police in Denmark arrested two men, in their 30s, who operated sites that gave instructions and guides on using Popcorn Time. It was abruptly shuttered by its original developers on 14 March, 2014 due to pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The UK High Court also ordered ISPs to block the app in April 2014.

Popcorn Time allows users to stream pirated movies and TV shows without having to worry about deleting incriminating torrent files afterwards. Popcorn Time has gone through quite a few iterations, originally, it was a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that offered an integrated media player. Meanwhile, in the US, movie makers have filed a lawsuit against 11 Popcorn Time users, alleging that they used the software to watch the 2014 Adam Sandler comedy The Cobbler. The law is moving to crush Popcorn Time – the video streaming site that’s been dubbed the “Netflix for pirated movies” – like so many crunchy snacks littering the floor of a crowded movie theater.īoots are stomping on multinational fronts: police in Denmark, for one, arrested two men just for providing online guides on how to use the site, even though the men’s sites hosted neither copyright-infringing material nor linked to any.

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