There are no ads, no premium accounts, and no subscription fees or anything like that. We don’t host anything, and none of the developers makes any money. They inform users that sharing copyrighted material is not allowed everywhere, and other than that they are just repackaging existing content, without a commercial angle. Since Popcorn Time links to a lot of copyrighted movies, Hollywood is not going to be happy, but according to Sebastian the developers don’t expect any legal issues. When finished the app will continue to share for a while after the download is finished, to avoid leeching. The application can search this database and allows users to stream the torrent on demand. The torrent files all come from YTS (formerly YIFY), which has an API Popcorn Time taps into. Everything is automated, we don’t host anything, but take existing information and put it together,” Sebastian says We consume a group of APIs, one for the torrents, another for the movie info, and another for the poster. “The technology behind the app is very simple. It’s basically a browser that users HTML, CSS and JavaScript to serve the movie streams.
Sebastian explains that Popcorn Time uses node-webkit and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Developers from all over the world have added new features and within 24 hours it was translated into six languages. Popcorn Time now has 20 collaborators on Github and continues to expand at a rapid pace. What started out as an experiment for a group of friends soon developed into something much bigger. Popcorn Time offers instant access to hundreds of films, in various qualities and complete with subtitles if needed. I have a lot of friends who don’t understand torrents and I wanted to make it easy and effortless to use torrent technology,” Sebastian tells us.Ī few months of coding later “ Popcorn Time” was born, a tool that allows users to stream popular movie torrents with the click of a button. Take something hard for the common user and make it usable. “As a designer I love the challenge of simplification. Faced with this challenge Sebastian, a designer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, decided to come up with a piece of software that would make the process as easy as Netflix. Over the years BitTorrent has become fairly mainstream, with hundreds of millions of people using torrent clients to download the latest entertainment.ĭespite its popularity the downloading process can be cumbersome at times, especially for novices.
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