This is a terrible article, full of inaccurate facts.<p>The most blatant of all is that Popcorn Time is not a site, it&#x27;s an application (which is why it&#x27;s been so hard to block).<p>It uses existing sites (like YTS and The Piratebay) to find magnet links to content to stream (using a torrent streaming library)<p>Also:
&quot;“Mr. Robot” is not available elsewhere, apart from on Popcorn Time.&quot; - What the hell? If a series is available on Popcorn Time it&#x27;s inherently because it&#x27;s available somewhere else, as they don&#x27;t host any content<p>But the one that bothers me most is that they mention how before Popcorn Time, piracy involved: &quot;Aggressive advertising banners, websites popping up unexpectedly and strange porn ads&quot;.<p>Well, guess what? Popcorn Time is an application that most people download in binary form, so it could steal your personal data, inject advertising in other sites, use your computer as a proxy... etc. It&#x27;s not a step forward.