
Yet, unlike Netflix and other streaming providers who pay for the rights to the content they offer, Popcorn Time doesn’t pay a dime for all the movies and TV shows on its app.īelieve it or not, the people behind the new app are even more defiant than the Argentine developers that created the original Popcorn Time website, which was forced to shut down in March 2014. It’s a pirating service designed to make downloading illegal torrents of popular movies and TV shows as easy as watching Netflix.

The legal argument for Popcorn Time’s video-streaming app is essentially nonexistent.

“We always felt Apple’s totalitarian approach to their ecosystem was wrong.”
