Forks of https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app are still online. Beware the speculations until you hear a statement from either the developers or github.
the Yify fork is gone as well.
https://github.com/Yify/popcorn-app
Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
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Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
He did explicitly start his sentence with "If".
Indeed, but then proceeded into calling for action: "Move your repositories away..."
This whole thread is great, it's what happens when programmers interpret English.
"Well, was the "Move your repositories..." within the implied closing '}" for the initial if statement or not?"
:)
Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#43No matches for popcorn in GitHub's DMCA request repo yet: https://github.com/github/dmca/search?q=popcorn
A takedown of a GitHub repository also takes down forks. Therefore it wasn't a GitHub-actioned DMCA takedown.
That's not necessarily the case. Last month yowsup was taken down due to a dmca complaint by WhatsApp, but my fork of it was still up.
Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#44I prefer XBMCtorrent over Popcorn-app anyway. It even supports search from within the XBMC menu, multiple trackers, can be controlled via remote on a HTPC etc.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=174736
I’d gladly pay for Netflix but it is not available in my country and this is the closest thing I have found so far.
Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
popcorn-time vs. popcorn-team
Well, besides that obvious fact. For those of us who have not been following it's development; were there any noted improvements of the new (now-missing) version over the original?
I haven't been super up to date with the code but yes. Lots of bugs and faster and better error handling in the newer versions. Improved for every week.
Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#46who got the latest fork?! :D Need to clone asap
Here it is, enjoy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515793
Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#47Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#48If this was GitHub's doing, it's yet another reason to not use GitHub. Move your repos elsewhere because GitHub thinks that censorship is a good thing.
Unjustified. Why jump into conclusions before official statements are made?
According to one of the developers, the fault lies with github
http://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2207zd/popcorn_...
Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#49Unfortunately I think that this was an act of releasing pressure from multiple person(s) that are against torrenting copyrighted content. Maybe we popped the popcorn too long... burning and leaving us hungry for more. Maybe we should try a better alternative?
Re: Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> "It would be shocking to me that they would remove the repo since they weren't technically serving torrents." I don't think it matters if they're serving torrents or not. The movie industry will likely sue them anyway and GitHub probably doesn't want to be involved in any way.
If they removed the tracker file then nothing can be wrong. It's not illegal to stream torrents. Just to stream copyrighted torrents. I will move away from github if this is true! First the sexism and now this!
The point was that the MPAA can make life very expensive for GitHub if even if they don't have legal footing.