Popcorn Time was one of the most discussed topics in the past month , the authors were glad to communicate with users and openly expressed its position. However, something has changed dramatically recently. Earlier sociable developers involved in this project , wiped his job, silenced , or all at once disappeared . Difficult to pretend that nothing is happening.Popcorn Time phenomenon in explaining not need (see Habré ) , I note only that this app is great to rock the boat immediately after its launch in March .
At the meeting, Ivanov asks:
- Where did Malinowski , crabs and the Moscow sausage ?
After the break, asked Sidorov
- I do not care what happened to Malinowski , crabs and
Moscow sausage . But here's what happened to Ivanov, who this
ask ?( a formulation of a bearded Soviet joke )In a nutshell , Popcorn new content is still not provided . The application is a directory of existing publicly available ( on torrents ) films , and this directory was done exceptionally well - liked it as illegal filesharing veterans and beginners housewives . Unfortunately, very soon the shop closed down. In mid-March the original founding fathers of the developers said that the winding up their business (see Habré ) ."Today Popcorn Time is disabled. Not because we're tired or we ran out of enthusiasm , we just want to enjoy life more and this topic does not apply to us anymore "- they wrote ." This experiment is a result moved us to the epicenter of the battle against piracy on the copyright , thus making us invisible schemers main goal , which ultimately could adversely affect our lives and what we care most about . And one of us was not myself . "Of course, we will never be able to get convincing evidence , developers who specifically threatened with criminal prosecution , as none of them wants to give any testimony. However , little poraskinuv brains, you can guess that most likely it was the owners of content that is heard on the ball through Popcorn Time - Hollywood.
Since the code of the project has been fully opened , in Popcorn Time had every chance to come back from oblivion and soon it happened. Not long to wait , many alternative forks popular applications began to appear on the surface. The very first candidate heirs was made by a programmer from YTS / YIFY, although then it turned out that the application will be an independent project without having to take the meta- data from the server .Fork developed while they were engaged in several contributors , including some of those who worked on the original project . And just after it was released a new version of the client at the end of March , began to happen is something inexplicable . Suddenly app disappeared from Github- repository previously silent developer friendly . He was super- sociable , willingly participated in the discussions , but after it was not followed by any message or chat lines .Something just happens. People may not have changed dramatically since the nature of a couple of hours , unless under pressure from outside . The information we obtained gradually through various channels , simply untrue .During the following weeks, communicating with other programmers who slowly sawed their forks application. The main developer of the project Popcorn-Time.tv told us that created a website immediately after the above-mentioned somewhere has got ."A couple of days ago .. [ ..] ... the guy was gone, and it 's a repository were consistently sawed ," he explained .Then , just a couple of days later, ready to launch this alternative mysteriously disappeared Popcorn Time developer suddenly radically changed its course. Suddenly, his version also disappeared from Github. And , after the previous writer fork , this also disappeared from the radar !
Attempts to contact him were unsuccessful. Emails on behalf TorrentFreak remained unanswered . Then , just yesterday , he suddenly showed up in a thread discussion Popcorn Time on Reddit."Everything you need to know - is that I'm still alive and busy with other projects ," he wrote . " I really can not tell you more , but the project popcorn-time from now on I am not associated . "In parallel with these events we were contacted by the developer of one of the forks still Popcorn Time. Like everyone else , he was very interested and serious about . But then , a few days later , on the same way had disappeared . Lively correspondence in the mail has been replaced by one-sided in silence with his hand .And although we have no tangible evidence to say exactly what caused the disappearance or closures of these enthusiasts , we can fully understand the circumstances of what is actually happening . These guys had one common origin - the talent , enthusiasm, eloquence and irresistible desire to promote their projects forward. As a result, even the most sociable and friendly refuse to give any public comments .Why is changing literally overnight ? We never get an official response , but as they say , if something looks like a duck , swims like a duck and quacks like a duck , then ...Translated by Xlab. If desired, you can notify the error to the PM , I'll be very grateful .***P.S. Already there on Reddit suggested that it would be cool to make your repository TorrentFreak code and be active , such as sawing a fork . Well, then find out who so politely says developers . Fishing lure the beast .
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