Posted by Popcorn Time is a movie streaming service that gets it’s sources from torrents. Formerly, this service worked through desktop and Android mobile apps. It wasn’t available on the web due to hosting issues. A 15-year-old Serbian programmer Milan Kragujevic, was able make this possible , and the service was hosted on browserpopcorn.xyz. This got a lot of attention over the weekend.
In an article he wrote:
“I live in a country where copyright law is almost nonexistant, and simply I don’t care,”
“I will keep moving the website, changing domains and providers … I don’t need to earn a single penny from it. I just want to do it because I believe that piracy will eventually cause the streaming bubble to pop, and the movie studios will realize that.”
A day later, piracy advocates hunted and shut down the domain. The young man then moved the site elsewhere to browserpopcorn.gq. As at time of writing this article, the site is down and no longer available. It appears further threats got to the young man and he gave up.
“It was a nice ride, but it’s time to move on,”
“I will be distancing myself from further development of Browser Popcorn.”
lol, anyone who revives the service is just setting themselves up for DMCA takedowns. same thing happened when Grooveshark was “revived”
Wow. 15years old running an illegal p*rn site; sounds like double illegality
Where dem talk say Na p*rn o?
Lol, I wonder where oga see porn too o. Na movie I see for this article na
If it only stream videos with no option of downloading then guess it was never relevant for Naija,no big loss..
The young man must be given kudos for his ingenuity though,most 15 year olds are still guffing around with all the time in their hands..
Me sef dey wonder o. Cos na movie I see up there, not porn o
Lol!!! Just because this one is popular doesn’t mean there aren’t other teenagers impacting lives positively.
The world is big and small enough, depending on what you do.
Some peeps are highly attuned to p*RN… Like with antennas n shii
We need more of these kinda sites tho… Oh yeah, firstly we need better internet
True.. But there’s almost always a way around such