MPAA: It’s Injunction Time for Popcorn Time

3 Nov 2015 – The Motion Picture Association of America was celebrating court orders in Canada and New Zealand it said will take a bite out of massive copyright infringement.

MPAA said that developers of Popcorn Time’s “official” fork (an offshoot of the open source Popcorn Time software) and BitTorrent site YTS, which abetted unauthorized distribution of TV shows and movies, have been shut down.

MPAA filed suit in Canada against three Canadian operators of popcorntime.io and secured an injunction against it.

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