Popcorn Time has 'died' before and has come back, several times. In that sense, Popcorn Time is unkillable. BitTorrent is probably the best, earliest, most useful, and most enduring example of the decentralized internet that Web3 and cryptocurrency evangelists hope to achieve. This is because Popcorn Time is essentially just a BitTorrent client that has a video player built into it. But it’s not that simple, and it’s silly to declare something that was designed to be unkillable as being “dead.” Just as the Pirate Bay has been “shut down” dozens of times but still exists in some version today, various versions of Popcorn Time are alive and well, and there’s no reason to think that it will ever die as long as the internet exists.

This led various publications including Bloomberg to declare that Popcorn Time, one of the most popular piracy services of all time, is dead and that this era of piracy is over. Alongside the chart was a simple message: “R.I.P.,” and a picture of the app’s anthropomorphic popcorn logo with Xes for eyes. Or is it?Įarlier this week, the person in control of popcorn-time.tw posted a Google Trends screenshot showing that interest in the app-which lets people illegally stream movies, TV shows, and anime using the BitTorrent protocol in a user-friendly interface-had plummeted since its introduction in 2015. Popcorn Time, the “Netflix for piracy,” is dead.

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