The application is open source and is hosted on GitHub, which means that anyone can take it and do pretty much what they want with it. The project even went dark for a while after getting too much attention, but the devs have bounced back. Popcorn Time can be simply considered a media player, but its developers (who have remained anonymous) say that it was made to show how the current system used by regular distribution channels is broken. It’s your duty, as a user, to decide if you want to employ this application or not. Whether this is moral has nothing to do with the way the application works, so we won't dwell on it any longer. Most people would say that downloading a movie from a P2P website and watching it without paying anything is illegal, but that is actually debatable and depends from country to country. It sounds illegal, but the developers say it's not.

Popcorn Time is a P2P media player built for one purpose – to allow its users to watch the latest TV shows and Movies directly from torrent sources, without downloading the actual files.

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