In this case he holds against the SUI sites communicating the material to the public, because the public does not perceive itself to be obtaining the material from the SUI site, but from the application. His logic with relation to SUI websites (which are closer to links websites) is different.
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(38).Īs you say, he doesn't explicitly consider Svensson et al - but those cases were about links, which did explicitly relate to individual works.Ī site providing just the Popcorn software does not, and that is what places it in his judgment outwith what "the act of communication to the public" can "be stretched. However, since a PTAS site does not contain any information about any work, he doesn't see how in any sense it could be 'communicating a work'. No, I don't think that Birss is saying that "to have an act of communication it is necessary to transmit a work".Īs he reviews at 35 and then himself summarises at 37, Bittorrent index sites such as The Pirate Bay "have been held to infringe copyright by communication to the public even though the infringing copy of the copyright work itself does not come directly from those websites", but instead because the websites had "intervened in a highly material way to make the copyright works available to a new audience" by containing "catalogued and indexed connections to the sources of those copies".
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They all stream copyrighted content and could likely be targeted by the MPAA (if they aren’t, as some rumors suggest, already controlled by the MPAA.) If you want to stream TV shows and movies legally, subscribe to services like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.Anonymous Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 20:14:00 GMT+1 It’s important to note that none of these domains are legal, however. PopcornTimeCE.ch (a community edition that supports the.Popcorn-Time.to and (Time4Popcorn: The PopcornTime subreddit claims it’s insecure and infected with malware, while TorrentFreak has said this isn’t confirmed and it’s the most consistent application).PopcornTime.io (taken down by the MPAA).PopcornTime.ag (in direct competition with the.PopcornTime.sh (just released and claiming to be from the original team).The main versions of Popcorn Time include: Reddit debates are heated, with different subreddits’ supporting different versions and claiming the other versions can’t be trusted. With no official names and no way to confirm who developed what, it’s unknown if any of the PopcornTime domains were created by members of the original team or if they are “trustworthy” to use. PopcornTime.io Was Shut Down by the MPAA Last Year However, TorrentFreak noted that the MPAA “probably isn’t behind the comeback.”ģ.
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TorrentFreak also reported that the code used to update the old PopcornTime application (connected to PopcornTime.sh), used the its.pt domain, which uses four nameservers owned by the MPAA. On competing subreddits, posters decried this discussion thread and said it was a smear campaign to try to get people to use PopcornTime.ag. The moderator noted that it was possible the MPAA set up the site as a honeypot to track users. The moderator noted that PopcornTime.sh uses four nameservers (ptn.sh, ptn.re, ptn.wf, and ptm.pm) that are controlled by the MPAA.
A subreddit community, PopcornTimeCE, which supports PopcornTime.ag, posted a discussion last week claiming that PopcornTime.sh is owned by the MPAA to track pirates. Meanwhile, debates about Popcorn Time’s various versions are growing heated on Reddit.
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