![]() On May 20, 2015, the government of Israel blocked all access to the official downloads of Popcorn Time, due to a lawsuit from its biggest cable and satellite providers for copyright infringement. It was therefore appropriate to order the ISPs to block the websites as provided for by section 97A of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988. However, the judge found that the Popcorn Time suppliers did “plainly know and intend” for the application to be “the key means which procures and induces the user to access the host website and therefore causes the infringing communications to occur” and on this basis had “a common design with the operators of the host websites” and therefore shared a joint liability for the copyright infringements ( joint tortfeasance). Instead, they had claimed that the providers had been authorising acts of infringement by content-hosting websites, but then that claim had not been made out. It considered it entirely probable that both the providers of the PTAS and the SUI could be held to be “authorising acts of infringement” by users, but this was not the case that the claimants had raised at the hearing. The court found that (unlike previous cases concerning indexing sites directly) neither websites providing the PTAS nor the SUI could be construed to be “communicating a work to the public,” since neither contained any specific information about any specific work. ![]() In the UK a court order was given in April 2015 to ISPs to block URLs that provided either the Popcorn Time application software (PTAS) or “sources of update information” (SUI) – i.e. The legality of the various Popcorn Time clients matched that of all other Bittorrent clients plus the additional issues that applies to sites like the Piratebay and YTS itself, due to the explicit linking to movie content its website claimed that the software was possibly illegal depending on local laws. Following which the inventors decided to release popcorntime’s code on github. It got so much media attention that it invited wrath from MPAA and due to law suits the program was abruptly taken down by its original developers on March 14, 2014. Popcorn Time quickly received positive media attention, The app was much appreciated for ease of use and it’s similarity netflix’s interface. All you need to get started with Popcorn Time is a proper internet connection History of Popcorntime Unlike Netflix you can watch any movie as many times as you want. If there is HD movie torrent out there then Popcorn Time will find the best version possible and start streaming it right away. Popcorn Time looks for the best torrents from the most important sites.
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