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MPAA Shuts Down Online Streaming App Popcorn Time

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For those of you who secretly watch all the trending TV Shows and movies via online streaming sites such as Popcorn Time – its doomsday for you. Popcorn Time and YTS have been shut down following court orders in Canada and New Zealand.

Popcorn Time Screenshot

This isn’t something that has come as a shock, because the Motion Picture Association of America or MPAA had filed a suit back in October against three operators of popcorntime.io, claiming that they had “enabled, authorized and induced copyright infringement via an app that allowed viewers to watch pirated movies and TV shows”.

YTS

In Canada, they received an injunction on the 16th of October to shutdown the site while in New Zealand they filed a suit on the 12th of October 2015  against YTS, which is a torrent site. Both sites have therefore, been shut down as the legal procedures continue.

All you can do now, is hope and pray the MPAA don’t get to your favorite site next.

Comments

58 responses to “MPAA Shuts Down Online Streaming App Popcorn Time”

  1. mohasley Avatar
    mohasley

    Great article. I also suggest looking closer at http://getpopcorntime.in/download-popcorn-time/

    Reply
  2. Wynden Ko Avatar
    Wynden Ko

    Sht i knew it

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  3. Stephanie Farkas Avatar
    Stephanie Farkas

    Also there’s 2 popcorn time. Download the other

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  4. Stephanie Farkas Avatar
    Stephanie Farkas

    What no. I just used it tonight

    Reply
  5. Channing Tang Avatar
    Channing Tang

    Wynden Ko rip

    Reply
  6. Cee Jay Avatar
    Cee Jay

    Popcorntime downloads the movie while I watch

    Reply
  7. Va Nessa Avatar
    Va Nessa

    Oh no!! :(

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  8. Matt LeBlanc Avatar
    Matt LeBlanc

    Andrew Sanford nooooo

    Reply
  9. Brando Holland Avatar
    Brando Holland

    Va Nessa bye bye popcorn :(

    Reply
  10. Kurvin Soobrayen Avatar
    Kurvin Soobrayen

    i know :(

    Reply
  11. Deanna Fiedler Avatar
    Deanna Fiedler

    Brandon Heffern NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :(

    Reply
  12. Danika Bell Avatar
    Danika Bell

    mine still works :/

    Reply
  13. Wilfred Pow Avatar
    Wilfred Pow

    Tony HongYi Qu fk

    Reply
  14. Jodie Huang Avatar
    Jodie Huang

    Nooooooooooo U0001f629 y do bad things happen to good ppl

    Reply
  15. Holly Dixon Avatar
    Holly Dixon

    Eric, it was $8 on the military base I was stationed at just over a year ago. I’m sure it was more than that but since I haven’t went to the theaters in my area, I don’t know the exact price.

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  16. Darcy Griffin Avatar
    Darcy Griffin

    Apparently it’ll be back up under a new name soon?

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  17. Stacy N Chin Avatar
    Stacy N Chin

    Oh so that’s why it wasn’t working….. NOOOU0001f623

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  18. Cindy Szikora Avatar
    Cindy Szikora

    No big loss, Kodi is better anyways.

    Reply
  19. Daniel Ling Avatar
    Daniel Ling

    Stacy N Chin ur in troubleeee

    Reply
  20. Dipanjan Ray Avatar
    Dipanjan Ray

    I am more sad by the news of yts.to aka yify torrents shutdown.

    Reply
  21. Abdul A Basade Avatar
    Abdul A Basade

    UK version is working…

    Reply
  22. Mike Sundvik Avatar
    Mike Sundvik

    Bailey Woods Nooooooooooooooo

    Reply
  23. Evening Breeze Avatar
    Evening Breeze

    Many other sites LOL

    Reply
  24. Eric Brooks Avatar
    Eric Brooks

    Where do people go to the movie theater for $8 these days – double that at least!

    Reply
  25. Jay Chitalia Avatar
    Jay Chitalia

    Strem.io is a very good alternative.

    Reply
  26. Jeff Tkachuk Avatar
    Jeff Tkachuk

    its still up

    Reply
  27. Diana Tran Avatar
    Diana Tran

    Mahgol Zahedi Ali Zahedi uh oh

    Reply
  28. Mannu Amrit Avatar
    Mannu Amrit

    I know :'(

    Reply
  29. Thearrel McKinney Avatar
    Thearrel McKinney

    “Both for-profit organizations and non-profit institutions must secure a license to show films, regardless of whether an admission fee is charged.” They aren’t exempt from anything, it is piracy, plain and simple.

    Reply
  30. Erynn Fisk Avatar
    Erynn Fisk

    Just google popcorn time new version :)

    Reply
  31. Erynn Fisk Avatar
    Erynn Fisk

    There’s a new version Noor. I downloaded it this week

    Reply
  32. Stephen L Wiseman Avatar
    Stephen L Wiseman

    EZTV says they are.

    Reply
  33. Matt Smith Avatar
    Matt Smith

    Anyone else not hear of this site before now?

    Reply
  34. Trevor Foster Avatar
    Trevor Foster

    Called reviews morons

    Reply
  35. Lisa Marie Avatar
    Lisa Marie

    Ohhhh good to know. I’m gonna tell Karen cuz she was using it.

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  36. Thearrel McKinney Avatar
    Thearrel McKinney

    Chris Tout There was nothing wrong with my analogy. The point was about people expecting things for free to see if they are worth paying for or not which is what pretty much all pirates claim about movies, music and video games. You can’t buy a cookware set, make a copy then return it. You can with movies, music and video games which is why there is a no return policy. People would just buy, make copies and return all day getting them for free.

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  37. Jay Soni Avatar
    Jay Soni

    Manan Patel is this the one you use?

    Reply
  38. Michael Lefebvre Avatar
    Michael Lefebvre

    Thats funny i just used it

    Reply
  39. Lianne Lavergne Avatar
    Lianne Lavergne

    Boo….this site was so well made. Maybe they can offer it at a nice cheap rate like 5 bucks a month. I’d buy it.

    Reply
  40. Byran Koback Avatar
    Byran Koback

    So lame, Maria. I am uninstalling it. :(

    Reply
  41. Steven Laxen Avatar
    Steven Laxen

    Movie makers and producers need to make money somehow! That’s what copyright is for….
    It sucks and needs change radically (because it suppresses the freedom of range for artist talent and creativity), but it’s the only sort of generally accepted bureaucracy to market media and the arts without having to get the government involved (i.e., turn it into an incorporated business).

    Reply
  42. Melyssa Cardarelli Avatar
    Melyssa Cardarelli

    Lisa Marie this is why I didn’t go for that site #sketchy

    Reply
  43. Daniel O'Sullivan Avatar
    Daniel O’Sullivan

    Are they ???

    Reply
  44. Alfred Baker Avatar
    Alfred Baker

    Streaming Sites are excluded from Copyright Infringement Laws because you are not Downloading the File.

    Reply
  45. Larry Palmer Avatar
    Larry Palmer

    We,ll open a new site.

    Reply
  46. Chris Tout Avatar
    Chris Tout

    Thearrel McKinney The problem with your analogy is, that you can return almost anything in the world for a full refund, except movies and music. That’s why no one wants to shell out the cash for crap they can’t return.

    Reply
  47. Steve Crowley Avatar
    Steve Crowley

    Most of the movies I would not buy any way. Only one I have bought is the Hunger Games. The movie follows the books fairly well. I would like to watch before I buy. Just like shoes off of the internet, what if they don’t fit.

    Reply
  48. Jimmy Clifton Faust Jr. Avatar
    Jimmy Clifton Faust Jr.

    Screw the mpaa

    Reply
  49. Stephen L Wiseman Avatar
    Stephen L Wiseman

    YTS YIFY are already back.

    Reply
  50. Thearrel McKinney Avatar
    Thearrel McKinney

    Not really. Sites like Popcorn Time offer a way for people to watch pirated movies in which they do not own the rights and licenses to stream said content owned by other studios. It isn’t about trying to save the consumer some $$ on movies they may not like. What they should have done instead of doing things the illegal way since they obviously had the ability to have such a site, is go the legal way and do something similar to Neflix, Hulu or Crackle. Pirates always say they should be entitled to watch and entire movie or play through an entire game for free to see if it is worth buying. Doesn’t work that way. That’s like walking into Walmart and saying, well I should be given this Paula Dean cookware for free because I want to see how well my hamburgers turn out to see if it’s worth buying. Buying things is a risk the consumer takes. Always do research before buying a product.

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  51. Cory Diebold Avatar
    Cory Diebold

    Just gonna get it somewhere else, lol.

    Reply
  52. Holly Dixon Avatar
    Holly Dixon

    That’s what I usually say. I don’t want to shell out $8 to go see a movie that’s all hype only to realize you just blew it on a stupid movie not worth it and could have spent the money better elsewhere (like save it to get that new pair of shoes you’ve been eying all month).

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  53. Easton LeMon Avatar
    Easton LeMon

    Plenty of other websites that get the job done so doesnt really matter.

    Reply
  54. Michelle Ariadna Avatar
    Michelle Ariadna

    I just called you. Answer

    Reply
  55. James R. Smith Avatar
    James R. Smith

    Sites like Popcorn Time offer a way for people to see movies and decide if they are worth buying rather than relying on hype and marketing and getting stuck with movies they don’t like.

    Reply
  56. Holly Dixon Avatar
    Holly Dixon

    Doesn’t matter anyway really. There will always be alternatives. That’s the cost of the internet being available to literally every human person on this planet. Am I condoning it? No. But as the saying goes, if there’s a will, there is a way.
    Now if there’s a place to convert old Disney VHS and IMAX VHS tapes to DVD for a decent amount of money, then you have my full attention. Because I’m not about to shell out twice the amount of money for each DVD to buy them all again. My library is far too vast for that.

    Reply
  57. Angelique Field Avatar
    Angelique Field

    They shut down a couple of weeks ago. I doubt this particular lawsuit has affected it. They’d already decided to trash the project, this isn’t really news.

    Reply
  58. Jacob Lamb Avatar
    Jacob Lamb

    We’re doomed to Netflix.

    Reply

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