Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with integrated media player

Posted by thunderbong on Sunday July 14, 2024 @12:50PM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop

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Re:Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with inte... by msephton on Sunday July 14, 2024 @12:52PM (#40961935)

Wow, this brings back some memories. I had no idea it was still going, I thought the studios had managed to close it down.

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Re:Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with inte... by xenospn on Sunday July 14, 2024 @09:38PM (#40964638)

I used to have their media steamer back in the day.

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Re:Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with inte... by jaruba_dev on Sunday July 14, 2024 @10:54PM (#40964921)

they did close it down, numerous times actually, this is probably the 10th iteration of it (that i know of), the most popular fork gave up on development 2 years ago: https://gizmodo.com/rip-popcorn-time-1848307032

at this point I would call this project zombified, I imagine that each new dev (or group of devs) keep degrading the code quality and experience on each new iteration..

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Re:Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with inte... by amomchilov on Sunday July 14, 2024 @04:48PM (#40963126)

Beware, this used to install some sketchy launchd daemons on macOS that ran as root. I don't remember the details, but look into `/Library/LaunchDaemons` and `/Library/LaunchAgents`.

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