14 DAY TRIAL // The most popular Popcorn Time fork that started having issues a few days ago is moving to a new domain and changing its name.
The original site’s domain, which was on .eu and registered by EURid, is no longer available after the registrar suspended it. The site’s admins were even announced that the original location was currently under legal investigation, which could take weeks to solve.
When the domain was suspended, it wasn’t just the site that went down, but also the desktop and mobile apps. So the folks over at Time4Popcorn decided to switch domains and picked the .com one for a few days, while also working to update the apps.
“Apparently there’s some sort of legal investigation going on against us in Belgium and this is what started the whole thing. This is what made EURid remove our domain just like that without any warning,” the Time4Popcorn team told TorrentFreak.
It seems that a copyright holder group filed a complaint with the domain name registrar, which resulted in the domain being suspended. Originally, the team behind the site was told that it was due to the fact that EURid had reasons to believe that the contact information was not accurate.
Site moves to .se domain
From here on out, Time4Popcorn is dropping the name as the fork is switching to a new domain – Popcorn-time.se. They hope that this one won’t become such an easy target.
“Our main agenda was to get a domain that will stay. Something that will not be taken down as easy as our .eu domain got taken down. We have a feeling that a .se domain will be much harder to remove, but we don’t really know for sure,” the team said.
Even though the site has been moved to a new domain, it seems that the app continues to work unlike the situation from a few days ago.
It seems that the legal issues of Time4Popcorn have been easily felt by other Popcorn Time forks since the former has lost its top spot in search engines. PopcornTime.io is the fork that initially took over from the original developers that chose to simply make the whole idea open source and lay low.
TorrentFreak reports that PopcornTime.io saw its traffic quadruple in the past few days, which means that there are thousands of new visitors to their site.
Either way, this proves that there’s a high interest in the “Netflix for pirates” and it will continue to be so regardless of the legal issues either of these apps have.