This week the feature was added to the latest 4.2 Alpha release. The news about the settlement requests prompted the developers to include a VPN option to anonymize use of their client. However, something that is even more important to us is that everyone will be able to get this experience without risking themselves,” the Time4Popcorn team tells TorrentFreak.
“Throughout these last months we realized that making the ultimate watching experience for everyone is important. To counter this “threat” the Time4Popcorn team decided to implement a VPN feature, for free. This already resulted in fines for German users of a Popcorn Time fork, but users in the United States and other regions where copyright trolls are active face the same risk. In common with all other BitTorrent-based software, copyright holders are actively monitoring the activities of people who pirate their works. These changes definitely increased the appeal of the application, but there was a threat lurking around the corner. The team behind the project has introduced several new features to their version, including TV-show listings and Android support. Time4Popcorn is one of the most users reincarnations of Popcorn Time. However, since the code is open source, many competing forks quickly adopted the project, each taking it in a different direction. Overwhelmed by the response the original team quickly retired. The software became the subject of hundreds of news articles, as it offered P2P streaming in an easy to use Netflix-style interface. The Popcorn Time phenomenon took the Internet by storm earlier this year.
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