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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by loeg on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:13AM (#23076751)
Napster and Limewire were operating commercial entities. Popcorn is just a bunch of random developers making an open source project. How do you take down something which can trivially be replicated (Git is theoretically a distributed VCS)?
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by notechback on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:37AM (#23076850)
You can still sue the developers to pieces even if the project lives on.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by echelon on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:46AM (#23077523)
For writing software?

Which torrent or emulator developers have been sued? I can't think of this having ever happened.

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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by durnygbur on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:02AM (#23077619)
We are talking about American copyright predators. Few entities on our planet are more evil and malicious.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by loeg on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:09PM (#23081580)
If you can identify them, and they're in a jurisdiction you can act in.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by koheripbal on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:33AM (#23079303)
.. and others will pick up where they left off.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by IAmNotAFix on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @09:43AM (#23079912)
They've been suing anyone who actually maintains a living instance of Popcorn Time. Maybe they hope that by removing the source code from something as popular as GitHub, this will at least diminish the frequency at which they need to sue.
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Re:Popcorn Time repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown by durnygbur on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:45PM (#23081979)
On almost every Reddit post (European subreddits, German especially) with people asking advice on torrents related cease and desist letter, there are comments "remember not to use Popcorn Time either" and similar even though the post's OP doesn't mention this software. It's like they are conducting a multi front war on Popcorn Time. Glad to see them pissed off and helpless.
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