![]() While it looks as though it may be a few months before Butter Project becomes available to the public, Popcorn Time is officially done. We hope to clear doubts in developers so that we can continue doing what we love: hacking a great experience for our users. ![]() ![]() Butter is created so that anyone can contribute to great desktop and mobile apps that allows to stream movies and shows from Bittorrent (and other sources, but more on that later) in a stylish and easy way. This new project, hosted on GitHub, is basically your beloved Popcorn Time stripped down of the parts that made people wary. ![]() Now, several of the developers are working on another project called the Butter Project: In addition, sources close to The Daily Dot also that "some devs grew unsure about their liabilities towards the content the app presented." In the past, Popcorn Time lawyers have filtered through copyright infringement cases and laws, they argue that it is essentially a legal program since, users of the program are not actually downloading movies but instead are, streaming them to their computer. Although it provided access to pirated content, Popcorn Time claimed that it did not violate any laws. The developers feared that by adding a paid element to the free streaming service it would open them to lawsuits. Several of the developers decided to quit early last week after a decision to introduce a paid anonymous VPN service. Shut down of Popcorn Time all started last week as developers behind the streaming service pulled the plug on the project. The application, which became popular for the ease to stream torrents of TV shows and movies, no longer works and the domain that hosted the streaming service is now offline. Popcorn Time, the most popular version of torrent streaming, has been shut down for good.
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