“The fact that Popcorn Time offers freely available, infringing copies of Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works suggests that the application is undermining the legitimate market in which consumers may pay to access those same works,” writes Alston. So far, none of the defendants have responded to the suit in court.Īlston notes that courts don’t award preliminary injunctions lightly, but in this case he found the plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claims and are likely to suffer irreparable harm absent the relief. The strike aimed at taking down the popcorn-desktop and popcorn-API repositories, and the Association notice said that extensive copyright infringement had been occurring by virtue of the operation and further development of the Popcorn Time repositories. What can make it illegal is watching and sharing copyrighted content. The plaintiffs then asked for an order that would freeze the defendants’ accounts at Tennessee-based Evolve Bank & Trust. While the Popcorn Time developers appear willing to push back against these DMCA notifications, GitHub likely will stay neutral and let courts decide if the infringement notifications should be. First step for any issue is to make sure you are running the latest official version (currently version 0.4.9 for desktop and version 0.3. No, Popcorn Time is not legal, they are warning you that you will get a big fine. froze the assets of their PayPal accounts, enjoined PayPal from allowing those funds to be transferred and allowed limited discovery directed to third parties PayPal, GitHub and Cloudflare.

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