To all of torrent fanatics out there, a new domain Popcorntime.ml has been launched for Popcorn Time. (Photo : Facebook)
Popcorn Time has disappeared again, which according to reports was prompted by the relentless hounding of the Motion Picture Association of America or MPAA. The Popcorn Time fork known as Community Edition suddenly went dark following its launch a few weeks ago.
According to TorrentFreak, operators of the Popcorn Time Community Edition or PTCE "have taken down their website and GitHub repository for the time being," indicating that the decision to go offline is deliberate on the developers' part.
The report said that the PTCE group intends to rework on the project with plans to resurrect the free movie streaming service, often referred to as the Netflix for Pirates, as soon as time and situation will permit.
As source by TorrentFreak, identified by the blog site as Redditor , claimed that the PTCE team was contacted by the MPAA shortly after the new Popcorn Time fork was launched. PTCE is a spinoff of the original PopcornTime.se that is hosted from Canada and which the MPAA had taken down earlier.
And it appears that PTCE suffered the same fate of its predecessor as confirmed that the group "decided to take everything down and start all over again."
The same source, however, insisted that it will not be the end of PTCE as Luretrix2k revealed that the team will come up with "a new strategy/game plan for the official site and GitHub repository to avoid this problem in the future." Part of the new PTCE tactic is to work behind the scenes to effectively elude the legal troubles that came with the MPAA pressures, the report added.
While no concrete timing was provided, PTCE is reportedly looking to resume the Popcorn Time operation quick enough but with utmost care of ensuring that developers and all parties involved will be free from legal concerns.
Earlier, PTCE has declared that "Popcorn Time will probably never go away, despite the efforts made by organizations such as BREIN, the MPAA and others." The group insisted that copyright holder should instead embrace "this great software," TorrentFreak said.
