There is no such thing as a one-price-plan that offers unfettered access to any movie you want to watch, and even if you want to rent an item you’re going to have to have at least 2-3 accounts on services from Apple, Netflix, Amazon or half a dozen others in order to guarantee the flick you want to see will be available when and if you want to see it. Titles are split across a strata that include a variety of creators, distributors, technologies and pay gateways. In contrast, streaming movies with one click is a much more complicated and tortuous affair. ![]() Popcorn Time unifies them under one roof - in exactly the agnostic, friendly way that the movie industry in aggregate has been so unable to do for its own products. They require a modicum of technical familiarity and engender some risk every time you place your trust in an un-verified link. As fast and available as torrents are, they’re still fragmented, dangerous and complicated. But she could definitely download Popcorn Time. My mom could not download a torrent app, find a torrent that was not a virus and download a movie on her own with no help. The absolutely lovely irony here is that Popcorn Time is doing for distribution of pirated movies exactly what the movie industry needs to do for itself. ![]() Now that the concept is out there I doubt it will ever go away completely - whatever iteration may come. Even though the original version of the app has been killed off, the project has already been forked and replicated by a new group. Popcorn Time is incredibly illegal almost anywhere, but it’s also almost impossible to stop people from using it without ISP intervention. ![]() Essentially, it aggregated torrent links and packaged them with artwork and a nice interface that allows one-click streaming of movies. So the big fun story of last week was this streaming movie app called Popcorn Time.
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