The MPAA statement cites comScore data as showing 1.5 million visits to PopcornTime.io in July alone. Earlier this year, several batches of lawsuits in the US were also aimed at individual users of the service. Popcorn Time has been called "BitTorrent for dummies," and it used a simple Netflix-like interface to allow watching of copyrighted content. On October 16, the MPAA's member studios obtained an injunction ordering the site to shut down. PopcornTime.io was said by its operators to be the "official" PopcornTime fork. MPAA sued three "key Canadian operators" of PopcornTime.io on October 9 in Federal Court in Canada. Now the MPAA has taken credit for that and the PopcornTime.io shutdown. "Popcorn Time and YTS are illegal platforms that exist for one clear reason: to distribute stolen copies of the latest motion pictures and television shows without compensating the people who worked so hard to make them," said MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd in a statement (PDF).Īccording to the piracy news site TorrentFreak, YTS stopped functioning in mid-October. The site that provides much of the content for illegal movies shown on the "Popcorn Time" app, PopcornTime.io, has been shut down after the Motion Picture Association of America won court orders in Canada and New Zealand.
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