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Popcorn Time: multi-platform, BitTorrent client with integrated media player (github.com/popcorn-official)
15 points by thunderbong on July 14, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


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`.


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


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


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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