Be sure that it's legal to use Popcorn Time in your country

Sep 18, 2014 08:55 GMT  ·  By

Popcorn Time, a powerful application that streams movies and TV shows directly from torrents, has been updated and is now at version 0.3.3.

The Popcorn Time developers have been quiet for a while, especially after being kicked out from GitHub, but that doesn’t seem to have slowed them down and now they've released a new version that comes with some interesting new features.

The application has been in the spotlight for a while because of its unclear legal status. Users don't actually download anything on their PCs, but they watch movies or TV shows that they didn't pay for. In some countries this is considered illegal, but there are also places where it doesn't really matter and it's not even illegal.

What's been happening with Popcorn Time

If you’ve been following the development of the project, you might have noticed that very little news arrived from that direction and users have been discussing its future. People have been unsure whether the project will continue to exist, but from the looks of it, they don't have to worry.

"After a very long wait (which we apologize for) you can now finally get the latest version of Popcorn Time hot off our site, https://popcorntime.io/! With it comes a plethora of new features, some of which are outlined below. We have already started work on version 0.3.4 with new features like Subtitles support for Chromecast and many others! We hope to have that out sooner rather than later. Thanks for your continued support and belief in the Popcorn Time project. A follow up blog post will be posted shortly. Now go and enjoy your Movies and some Popcorn!," say the devs on their Google+ profile.

According to the developers, a huge internal code cleanup has been made in this release (for Databases compatibilities have been broken), auto-update is not supported for this version, the project has moved to a self-hosted repo, (http://git.popcorntime.io), FontAwesome is now being used instead of PNG, the white flash at startup has been removed, a much cleaner layout for the settings has been implemented, and three default themes have been added.

Always, an Always on Top option has been added, a start page option has been added, Rating is now available on covers, multiple UI improvements have been implemented, it's now possible to resize covers on the fly (Ctrl+ and Ctrl-), and a built-in help section has been added.

You can download the latest Popcorn Time 0.3.3 release from Softpedia. Just extract the files and run the binary file inside.

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