March 2014, Hollywood studios saw a threat in this kind of software. He had the idea to develop this application as he was facing difficulty to access films in his country.Ī Buenos Aires team formed around the project. Its creator is an Argentine developer, named Sebastian (or “Pochoclín” popcorn in Argentina). It encrypts the flow of torrents so nobody can observe the downloads.įebruary 2014, the first version of Popcorn Time is out. Over time, developers have extended the software to add subtitles and VPN function. The job of this software is to download torrents pieces in the order with the goal of starting the film or the series as fast as possible.

You don’t need to wait for the entire film or series to be downloaded over to your computer to start watching them. The Popcorn Time Software call the torrents files distributed over the Internet. You have to choose among the different versions of Popcorn Time, download (~40MB) and install it. In Italy, Popcorn Time web sites are blocked by the government.

In Germany and the United States many fines were issued from 800 to 10,000€.

Warning the use of this application put you in the same position as illegally downloading “torrents” files. It is now available for almost all platforms: Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Android, iPhone iOS and Android TV lately. No more waiting to download the entire movie or the television series to start watching it. It uses the files available on the “torrents” platform and presents them in a fun way. This is an application that allows you to watch movies or series with an interface as simple to use as a platform for video on demand (VOD).

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