Business Insider - Popcorn Time, the desktop app that streamed pirated movies to your computer, is no more according to a blog post on its website.
During the brief time it was available, the developers never acknowledged who they actually were. The anonymous blog post explains that the team was very proud of their creation and checked that it was legal four times ,but decided to pull it down to move on with their lives.
if you use custom subtitles with VLC, Kodi, Stremio, or PopcornTime, your system may be at risk of a new type of malware.
A ransomware named "Popcorn Time" encrypts your Windows files with an AES-256 encryption. To unlock the files, the victim will need to pay one Bitcoin ($780 or roughly Rs. 52,600).
Norwegian economic crime police have seized the domain name of a local Popcorn-Time website. The site in question didn't offer any copyright infringing material, but featured news articles and links to external sites where the popular application could be downloaded. No arrests were made.
