A Danish man has been hand down a six - calendar month conditional conviction for only sharing information about Popcorn Time , the once - populartorrent - free-base streaming clientthat was place for exterminationby copyright lawsuits .
According to theCopenhagen Post , a court in Odense detect the man shamed of “ promoting the illegal online motion-picture show streaming help Popcorn Time via his internet site popcorntime.dk . ” It ’s the first time in the country that a humankind has been convict of “ enter in the promotion of cyclosis services , ” prosecutor Dorte Køhler Frandsen told the newspaper , total that “ The determination is a clean-cut signaling to those who help spread illegal plagiarist military service . ”
Popcorn Time is basically a torrent guest that looks like Netflix , which oncedescribed it as a top competitor . From the Post ’s verbal description , it does n’t seem like the individual in question was doing anything other than instructing citizenry on how to prepare up the client :
More specifically , the military man was convicted of offer a guideline about how Danish users could download the Popcorn Time app , how to put in and use it , and how to stave off being detect by the authorities .
The court moved to seize some 500,000 krone ( around $ 82,300 ) he had made from publicizing revenue on the site and assign him 120 months of community overhaul , though he has two weeks to appeal , according to the Post .
As noted byTorrentFreak , the popcorntime.dk domainnow expose a warningto users in both Danish and English :
The Danish State Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime is presently carry a criminal investigation that postulate this domain name . As part of the investigating the state prosecuting attorney has requested a Danish District Court to channel the right of the domain name to the state prosecutor . The District Court has follow with the request .
Anarchived version of the sitecontained contact to Popcorn Time apps hosted on other site , as well as various other apps for streaming purposes .
If the homage ’s aim was to scratch the vane of entropy about Popcorn Time , they look to have been ( predictably ) unsuccessful . While the original developer of the project pull up it from Github in 2014 , ontogenesis has been independently continued by numerous other team and various interlingual rendition of the software stay on trivially easy to locate online including asemi - prescribed heir . Similarly , the archived version of the land site continues to be accessible via the connexion above .
Though many right of first publication holders have moved on from action private downloaders to trying to drive websites which distribute flood offline , using Popcorn Time - derivative apps without identity - masking peter like a VPN is not without its risks . In 2015 , some German users receiveddemands for 815 eurosfrom a house representing 21st Century Fox , Warner Brothers , and German film and TV studio on the groundwork that the user not only downloaded depicted object but uploaded it through Popcorn Time .
[ TorrentFreak / Copenhagen Post ]
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