Monday, 10 March 2014
Popcorn Time is a new open-source software created by developers in Buenos Aires that lets you stream and watch movies while torrenting them in the background. Yes, this means that while you watch the movie, the app acts as a torrent client and continues to seed and leech it. Now, you may be wondering about the legality of it all, and we must stress here that downloading any copyrighted file is illegal. However, torrents themselves aren’t illegal and are a perfectly valid means to download and share files.
The application will also stream the
movies automatically in HD (or the best available quality). Once a movie
has been completely streamed, the downloaded file will be moved to a
‘secret’ folder in your system and will be automatically deleted once
you restart your machine. The app provides no way to locate where the
file is saved.
You can head on over to the Popcorn Time website and download the app
(it’s still in beta) for Windows (7 and above), Linux and Mac. We must
mention here that downloading copyrighted content is an offense in India
under Section 66 of the IT Act, so, you know, do what you think is
legal.
