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Subtitle Hacking Can Take Over Your PC
Ever feel like you might be losing something in translation? Well, this catchphrase has taken on a much sinister tone as a hacking tool has been discovered that would allow someone to take control of your PC, simply because you decided to turn the subtitles on. How does this subtitle…
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Unlock New Ransomware by Infecting Your Friends
A new ransomware is offering infected users the chance to regain access to their locked computers without paying by sending the malicious software to infect other people’s systems. If the malware is successful in infecting two of your contacts, you get a free encryption key in return. Popcorn Time –…
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Popcorn Time Returns Despite MPAA Shutdown
The most popular fork of Popcorn Time, which was subject to a shutdown by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has announced its return, using the new Project Butter streaming platform. The use of Project Butter to revive Popcorn Time is ironic, since the app was developed as a…
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Popcorn Time to be Revived in the Browser
Popcorn time has been blocked, banned and taken down over copyright issues a number of times. It seems that the popular movie streaming service just refuses to die. Despite the seizure of its popcorntime.io site by the MPAA, Popcorn Time is set to return as Popcorn Time Online. It claims…
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Popcorn Time Ramps Up For Full Comeback
When the main fork of popular torrent video-on-demand app Popcorn Time closed in October, citing legal issues and splits within the development team, many suspected that the so-called “Netflix for pirates” was a goner. But it seems that reports of Popcorn Time’s demise has been greatly exaggerated, with the developers…
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YTS Closure Down to Deal Struck With Hollywood
YTS, the website that was home to the infamous YIFY torrents, closed for good last week, calling time on years of good quality, low file size HD pirated movies. YIFY, which was the primary source of content for popular pirate streaming app Popcorn Time, nor YTS revealed what had motivated…
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Torrent Favourites YIFY and YTS Are Permanently Shut Down
YIFY, one of the most popular torrent uploaders in the world, and its respective website YTS have been permanently shut down, according to TorrentFreak. YTS has been down for over a week, sparking concerns that it may not return, and trusted sources close to the matter have informed TorrentFreak that,…
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Popcorn Time Returns as Copyrighted Content-Free Project Butter
With Popcorn Time going offline at the start of this week, amid legal issues and the subsequent split of its coding team, many feared that the “Netflix for pirates” streaming app had been permanently canned. However, the remaining creators have returned, launching the closely-related steaming platform, Project Butter. But there’s…
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Hollywood is to Blame for the Popularity of Popcorn Time
Hollywood is in the midst of an aggressive assault against “Netflix for pirates” movie streaming app Popcorn Time and its users, but the owners of Popcorn Time insists that its VOD service isn’t the problem, Hollywood’s lack of legal rival is. In a statement to TorrentFreak, the Popcorn Time team…
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Hollywood Sues US Popcorn Time Users
The studio responsible for producing maligned Adam Sandler comedy The Cobbler, which currently holds a risible 9% on Rotten Tomatoes, has filed a lawsuit in Oregon against 11 people who watched the film through ‘Netflix for pirates’ app, Popcorn Time. This is the first time that a copyright holder has…
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Popcorn Time Vulnerability Leaves Users Open to Attack
A security engineer has found a vulnerability in popular pirate movie application Popcorn Time that could leave users’ devices open to being hacked by a “man-in-the-middle” attacker. Antonios Chariton (aka ‘DaKnOb’), a Security Engineer & Researcher living in Greece, found the vulnerability in at least one fork of Popcorn Time’s…
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Is Netflix Planning to Implement P2P Streaming?
Inspired perhaps by pirate home cinema app Popcorn Time, it seems Netflix is considering peer-to-peer (P2P) support for its video streaming service. A recent job post by the company for a Senior Software Engineer suggests that it sees P2P as the latest technological step for its media platform, which specifically…
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Pirate Movie Streaming App Popcorn Time Blocked by UK Court
The High Court ruled yesterday that popular movie streaming platform Popcorn Time be blocked by the UK ISPs. Sky, BT, EE, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media will be forced to block access to five URLs that offer the Popcorn Time app for download. In his ruling, Judge Briss did a marvellous…
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Popcorn Time, the “Netflix for Torrents”, Arrives on iOS
Popcorn Time, known colloquially as the “Netflix for torrents”, has finally arrived on iPad and iPhone. The open source BitTorrent client, powered by YIFY, has been available for Windows, Linux, OS X, and Android for some time, but making the platform available for iOS seemed impossible without a jailbroken device.…
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Popcorn Time Attempts a new P2P Approach to Slip Past Legal Action
‘Free’ movie sharing service, Popcorn Time, has gone through a number of lawsuits in the past for its attempt to provide its users with pirated movies. However, the service is attempting another comeback and by adopting peer-to-peer based services. Popcorn Time believes that hosting data directly with its users and no…
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