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Re:Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub by k-mcgrady on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @08:46AM (#7515077)
>> "It would be shocking to me that they would remove the repo since they weren't technically serving torrents."

I don't think it matters if they're serving torrents or not. The movie industry will likely sue them anyway and GitHub probably doesn't want to be involved in any way.

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Re:Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub by daSupreme on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @10:04AM (#7515563)
If they removed the tracker file then nothing can be wrong. It's not illegal to stream torrents. Just to stream copyrighted torrents.

I will move away from github if this is true! First the sexism and now this!

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Re:Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub by frandroid on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @11:08AM (#7516030)
The point was that the MPAA can make life very expensive for GitHub if even if they don't have legal footing.
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