Not surprisingly, MPAA puts a stop to it immediately

Oct 21, 2015 14:23 GMT  ·  By

A 15-years-old kid created a website where you could stream and watch movies using the same technology employed by Popcorn Time and Netflix... aaand it's gone now. Nevermind.

Popcorn Time, despite being incredibly illegal due to the fact that it completely ignores content copyright laws, is quite popular among many users around the globe.

So when a teenager by the name of Milan Kragujević ported some of its core principles to the Web, allowing users to watch movies using only their browser and no other add-ons and desktop clients, the website (BrowserPopcorn.xyz) garnered a lot of attention from many users and news agencies alike.

Lawsuit threats from the MPAA

As expected, the service was short-lived, and due to its quick rise to fame, legal pressure from the MPAA soon followed, and its developer had to shut it down a day after it made headlines on news outlets like Gizmodo, The Verge, or Vice.

User accessing the website earlier today were greeted by a message from Kragujević, which read, "MPPA, y u gotta ruin everything? BrowserPopcorn has been taken down by the E.V.I.L. money-grabbing [expletive]lords of America, The Motion Picture Association of Murica."

This messages has now been removed, and BrowserPopcorn's original interface loads, but without displaying any other type of content.

Not the first attempt at a browser-based Popcorn Time version

This is not the first time someone has tried to port Popcorn Time to the Web, a similar project having been launched and eventually failing back in May.

That time around, the PopcornInYourBrowser.net service had to shut down after the cloud torrenting Coinado.io service discontinued its free access to its tools due to an immense amount of traffic.

Judging by how quickly the MPAA reacted with BrowserPopcorn, we don't believe that project would have lived too long either, even if Coinado hadn't intervened.