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MPAA-Hunted Popcorn Time Makes Surprise ‘Comeback’ (TorrentFreak)
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Late last year the main Popcorn Time fork, operating from the PopcornTime.io domain name, shut down its website unexpectedly. The MPAA took credit for the fall announcing that it had filed a lawsuit against several of the developers in Canada. In response to these legal threats several key developers backed out.
Since the initial announcement there hasn’t been much news about the project. However, that’s changed.
It began when the outdated versions of the PopcornTime.io fork received a surprise update, noting that “Hail Hydra” was installed. Following this update the application became fully operational again without any significant issues.
The main changes in the new version appear to be that it’s based on the code from Popcorn Time’s ‘legal’ spin-off Butter and that it no longer promotes the VPN service VPN.ht. Soon after the update there was additional confirmation of a ‘comeback.’ The official GitHub repository was updated with a new working version and now points to PopcornTime.sh as the new home, as does the official Twitter account.
