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PopcornTime

September 29, 2023
October 25, 2015

PopcornTime is an app built upon web technology (Electron) for streaming contents via bittorrent. It was shutdown in March 2014.
Popcorn Time Shuts Down, Then Gets Resurrected by YTS (YIFY) - TorrentFreak

PopcornTime.io was the PopcornTime fork backed by the original team. It was shutdown in October 2015.
Popcorn Time Chaos Leads to Shutdown - TorrentFreak

The core technology was forked as Butter Project. Sources will be implemented as add-ons (like the Kodi project).
Butter Project - Watch movies and TV shows instantly!

r/PopcornTime
r/ButterProject

Use TV endpoint http://eztvapi.co.za/ for now.

Time4Popcorn (popcorn-time.se) was the other fork but embeds adware.