Trouble in PopcornTime.io cityĪrguably the most popular Popcorn Time fork, the desktop application available from PopcornTime.io, has had a bit of a shakeup as rumors surfaced that several key developers have left. It’s an all-in-one copyrighted media streaming service all available as a web app. Once the movie viewer is running, watchers can pause, play, seek, and exit back to the main page. The selected movie starts immediately upon clicking that bottom. By clicking on one of the movie covers the details slide in from the side including a big “WATCH IT NOW” button. Visitors are greeted with a layout extremely similar to Popcorn Time with available movies displayed just like the app, except that genres and categories appear on the site. The new website is called Browser Popcorn and is a fork of the Popcorn Time project. Of course users who watch copyrighted works (which is the mainstay of the app) violate the law when they do so–but that has not hurt the sheer popularity of the program.Īccording to BGR.com, Popcorn Time just got easier to watch: it’s now coming to the browser without the need for a plugin. The app, described as “Netflix for pirates,” uses the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol to stream movies in a fashion similar to other networks used by media pirates to get the movies they want. This involves creating a desktop entry with the filename sktop in /usr/share/applications and you can do it via your terminal or with a text editor.It has never been so easy to watch popular movies and TV shows on your computer without having to buy them, all made possible by the widely popular application Popcorn Time. $ sudo ln -sf Popcorn-Time /usr/bin/Popcorn-Time This is so that any user can run Popcorn Time without having admin rights and it involves creating a symbolic link to the executable in the directory /usr/bin using the command. $ sudo apt update & sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libgconf-2-4įirst create a directory called “ popcorntime“in your home, download the tar package relevant to your architecture from here and extracted tar files in it. Feel free to skip this step if you’ve got the dependencies covered.
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