Pursuant to court orders in Canada and New Zealand, the “official” Popcorn Time fork and YTS, a BitTorrent site and release group that was the primary source of illegal movie content on Popcorn Time have been shut down, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said. Together with these illegal commercial enterprises enabled acts of copyright infringement worldwide on a massive scale.
“Popcorn Time and YTS are illegal platforms that exist for one clear reason to distribute stolen copies of the latest motion pictures and television shows without compensating the people who worked so hard to make them,” said Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). “By shutting down these illegal commercial enterprises, which operate on a massive global scale, we are protecting not only our members’ creative work and the hundreds of innovative, legal…show more content… Entertainment Inc) on 9 October 2015 in the Federal Court in Canada against three key Canadian operators of the popcorntime.io fork (David Lemarier, Robert English and Louie Poole), claiming the defendants enabled, authorized and induced copyright infringement of motion pictures and television shows. Popcorntime.io, which its operators have dubbed the “official” Popcorn Time fork, had 1.5 million unique visitors in July 2015 alone, according to “comScore” an America Internet analytics company and once those visitors downloaded the app, they were able to illegally watch thousands of stolen motion pictures and television shows. As a result of the evidence filed with the lawsuits, the studios obtained an injunction on October 16 ordering that the defendants shut down and refrain from operating or promoting the site and corresponding
