This triggered a wave of enforcement actions including a lawsuit in the US, targeting the alleged operator of Popcorn-Time.to (later. “Piracy continues to be one of our biggest competitors,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings commented in 2015, specifically mentioning Popcorn Time’s growing popularity.

This was a major concern for Hollywood and Netflix began worrying too when Google searches for Popcorn Time began rivaling those for Netflix in some regions. The original developers were quick to throw in the towel but the open source code was widely copied with Popcorn-Time.to emerging as one of the leading forks.ĭuring those early years, millions of people used the software. In the years that followed Popcorn Time had to endure plenty of legal threats, mostly from Hollywood. The software offered a clean and easy-to-use interface to stream pirated movies and TV shows, all powered by BitTorrent. When the original Popcorn Time application launched eight years ago, we billed it as the “ Netflix for Pirates.”

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