Yesterday, GitHub took down two repositories used by the Popcorn Time developers for their Desktop client and API after receiving a DMCA infringement notice from the Motion Picture Association.

Update: The Popcorn Time project is now up on GitHub, and the new installers are available here. I tested Popcorn Time out briefly last weekend, and I was shocked by how well it worked.

The saga continues. Popcorn Time, the so-called Netflix for pirated content, has vanished from its splashy website and GitHub home. The latest popular fork of open source project is gone, but the ...

Butter ? This new project, hosted on GitHub, is basically your beloved Popcorn Time stipped down of the parts that made people wary.

It’s very possible a community member will create a new Popcorn Time from the official release’s ashes. The app’s source code lives still on GitHub, ripe for anyone to fork into something new.

Over the weekend, the Popcorn Time app was posted on GitHub, a San Francisco-based hosting service for software development projects. The source code to the software was still available on GitHub ...

Popcorn Time was built by 20 developers on GitHub to be a sort of illegal version of Netflix. Its software featured an intuitive user interface and was translated into 32 languages.

Shortly after 'Hail Hydra' made its way out into the world, the original GitHub repository was updated, the website in the tweet above came online and Popcorn Time appeared to be back in action.

Update by Caleb Denison 3-14-2014 – After making headlines for a couple days, Popcorn Time’s creators have taken the site down. According to ARS Technica, even though the creators maintain ...

The Popcorn Time project as it previously existed is gone. The front-facing website bragging about its movie-streaming abilities is a simple blog post now. The link to download the installer is gone.

Popcorn Time eliminates the seedier aspects of torrent location in a slick app that doesn't involve dealing with files, download speeds, or seeding—at least on the front end.

Developers of Popcorn Time Community Edition have been reportedly compelled by the Motion Picture Association of America to shut down the site. The developers allegedly intend a quick return ...