Britain and the peer-to-peer do not mix. In a court order issued on April 28, the United Kingdom found that the peer to peer exchange software Popcorn Time, dubbed the “Netflix pirates” will now be blocked for download.
“Nobody really uses Popcorm Time for watching legal content.” It is in these terms that the High Court of Justice delivered its verdict on the application Popcorn Time, “the nightmare of Hollywood “. Spurred on by the Motion Picture Association, which groups the world’s largest film production studios, access to UK internet providers were forced to cut off access to all websites offering downloading any version the implementation of peer-to-peer .
Based on a court decision that had allowed him to block the Pirate Bay site, justice operated blocking several sites in streaming in addition to pages that hosted files Installation Popcorn Time. If developers of various applications have often defended on the grounds that the service allow easy and quick reference to works in the public domain, the British courts did not yet seen in this eye stating bluntly that the utility Popcorn Time “ was breaking the rules of copyright.”
The software, which was launched in 2014, quickly became scan through legal action but as soon as the code was made public, dozens of clones have emerged all over the web. Blocking a meager handful of URL therefore unlikely to actually curb the phenomenon, because the facilities of different variants of the software files quickly find another place. Besides all those who have already downloaded the application do so will not disabled, since the decentralized system that animated Popcorm Time is hardly stoppable.
Corentin Bechade Specialised editor in mobility and gadgets collector. Never go out without a connection.
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