“Brain, aim arrows on the hosts of Popcorn Time”

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Antipiraterijstichting Brain writes hostingpartijen to the site of Popcorn Time to remove. In the past few weeks would be the application for streaming p2p video is already three times of hostingaanbieder have to change, after demands from the Brain.

Tim Kuik, director of Brein, confirms against Tweakers behind the application: “We have in recent weeks, several Dutch hosting companies ranked. Popcorn Time is now to leave the Netherlands. They are now to a foreign provider migrated”, says Kuik. The director says working with anti-piraterijwaakhonden in other countries to foreign hostingpartijen to speak.

He also says the people behind the application to want to speak, and in addition, he is blocking the site. “We need to wait on the verdict of the case about the blocking of The Pirate Bay.” On april 17, is the opinion of the Advocate General in that case expected. According to Kuik works in addition to addressing the services to which the offer of Popcorn Time is based. “Like EZTV that in the raid on The Pirate Bay went offline. That extends elsewhere its head again, but this cat-and-mouse game to disrupt. Goal is to use onaantrekkelijker to which the user is going to think about legal alternatives.”

The website where the Popcorn Time-download, struggled in recent weeks, with downtime and slow downloads. “We have a few difficult weeks had in which we between three different hostingpartijen have changed,” says a spokesman of Popcorn Time against Android Planet. Brain would new hostingpartijen quickly write. According to the spokesperson the foundation would Popcorn Time ‘is broken want to make’.

“We find it annoying that we have our time in this nonsense need stitches”, the administrators continue to know. The actions of Brain would have made the team, however, ‘only get stronger’. They claim not to depend on one central domain server or a public api and a suitable new hostingpartij to have found it. “We bring today to release updates for Windows and Mac, and we’re just going by,” said the spokesman.

It is In fact a fork of Popcorn Time, which is being developed by a team that themselves Time4Popcorn calls. Users can use the service movies streaming play via BitTorrrent be distributed. Use of the service is illegal: both uploading and downloading of copyrighted materials is done without permission of the copyright holders.