Popcorn Time

Popcorn Time, Netflix, HBO and the future of digital media

Thursday, April 30, 2015

This story about a U.K. court ordering Popcorn Time blocked has been knocking around in my brain for a couple of days now. When stuff knocks around in my head for days, chances are it will end up in written form, right here. So here we go.

Popcorn Time streams movie torrents, but maybe it’s more than that

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The image above is the first screen you see when you open Popcorn Time. The app, available on Mac, Windows and Linux, streams movies from the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent. The technology is similar to what old school music swapping service Napster used from about 1999 to 2001, …