Time4Popcorn's domain (or one of them) was also recently shut down, apparently [1]. Perhaps this is part of a larger effort by the various copyright organizations against the various Popcorn Time derivatives?
DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn
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#22Is it really even news when an app essentially dedicated to copyright infringement is claimed to violate copyright laws? Popcorn Time isn't a general-purpose app that happened to be used for copyright-infringing purposes sometimes. It was designed to help people infringe copyrights by making it as easy as possible.
Have you try it?
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#23It's time to decentralize source repositories.
More like not to entrust single copies of open projects to US-based companies. Even a somewhat 'respected' company as Github is just a corporate body that will bend over for anyone with business and away from anything that is Too Troublesome.
Re: DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn
#24And it's back http://blog.popcorn-time.se/
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#25Is the git repository blocked too? or only the github project? (I can't try it right now)
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#26It seems to still be available from popcorntime.io in a local Stash repo: https://git.popcorntime.io/stash/projects
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#28It's time to decentralize source repositories.
If someone wants to set up a source repository to host content that is designed to make it easy to infringe copyright, I'd be in favor of it.
Mostly so that content can live somewhere other than GitHub, which would free up their admins from having to deal with this mess.
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#29> Attached as Exhibit A is a series of screenshots taken from within the applications of each Project that includes images of copyrighted works available through the Projects. The representative titles shown in Exhibit A consist of only some of the motion pictures and television programs that are owned or controlled by the MPAA Member Studios and that are being infringed via the Projects. Exhibit A is provided as a r…
>Maybe we can skirt by with the general purpose nature of the above tools...so what about tools used to facilitate penetration testing (which can also be used for computer crime) - should we get rid of that source code too?
Germany made all "hacker tools" illegal to posses in 2007.
Re: DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn
#30No doubt this will be reinstated in a few days after the devs file their counterclaim. IANAL, but there's no DMCA violation in the code itself. Even though the DMCA claim was spurious, GitHub did was they were obligated to do by taking it down for now.