Two weeks after launch, a team of lawyers assembled by Warner Bros. Some of the stories of what happened to Popcorn Time are told below. Inevitably, however, Popcorn Time attracted the ire of movie producers and was shut down and reborn several times over the years. The platform was eventually launched in March 2014, with hundreds of thousands of users downloading it in the first two weeks. The platform was created by a team of anonymous Argentinian developers in 2014, with only one member, Federico Abad, so far identified.Ībad created Popcorn Time because he grew tired of waiting six months after a cinematic release for a film to be available in his country.
Popcorn Time is a free BitTorrent client with a media player where users can watch various television shows and movies.
Popcorn Time continues to be available today. Many users simply migrated to streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix.