{"id":143618,"date":"2015-10-24T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=143618"},"modified":"2015-10-24T15:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T13:42:03","slug":"popcorn-time-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/143618-popcorn-time-shuts-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Popcorn Time shuts down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popcorn Time, which allowed users to stream unauthorized copies of films, has announced that it has shut down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/popcorn-time-chaos-triggers-more-downtime-151023\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TorrentFreak reported that<\/strong><\/a> Popcorn Time developer \u201cWally\u201d said that he has shut down the fork\u2019s servers. \u201cThis likely marks the end of the most-used Popcorn Time variant,\u201d the website said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI shutdown all the servers, there is nothing I can do anymore. I deleted any logs that can be harmful for any other dev,\u201d the developer told TorrentFreak.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication there was an exodus of developers at Popcorn Time, including the person who registered the application&#8217;s domain name, in fear of legal action.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Popcorn Time<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/123922-netflix-for-pirates-ios-app-multichoice-responds.html\">Netflix for pirates iOS app: MultiChoice responds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/117234-netflix-for-pirates.html\">Netflix for pirates<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popcorn Time, which is widely described as Netflix for pirates, has been shut down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,2054,28460],"class_list":["post-143618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-netflix","tag-popcorn-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}