Fifteen-year-old maker shuts down BrowserPopcorn

A few days after its introduction, BrowserPopcorn was taken offline by the maker. Popcorn Time could be used on the website, without installing any software. The site was the reason for the statements of the Brein foundation about prosecuting Popcorn Time viewers.

If you surf to BrowserPopcorn.xyz now, you will see a number of statements from the maker. It would be a fifteen-year-old boy named Milan Kragujevic. He writes, “It’s been a nice ride, but it’s time to move on. I’m distancing myself from further development of BrowserPopcorn.” He would in conversation being with people who want to continue a service like his. Milan states that his intention was not to promote piracy, but that the website is an “experiment with streaming techniques”. He also leaves his email address, in case someone wants to hire him.

The Verge spoke to Kragujevic on Tuesday, revealing that after receiving a cease and desist order from the MPAA, he moved the website to a new provider and domain name. Previously, Kragujevic wrote on Product Hunt: “I live in a country where there are virtually no copyright laws, I just don’t care. I will keep moving the website, I don’t need to make any money from it.” It’s not the first time a web version of Popcorn Time has appeared.

The website has been online since this weekend and can be seen as the reason for the statements made by Tim Kuik on Tuesday. Kuik told BNR that it is alarming if Popcorn Time ‘is getting easier to use’. The director of Stichting Brein said in the same conversation that he ‘wouldn’t be surprised’ if individual Popcorn Time viewers received claims for damages within a month. PopcornTime.io, the service’s most popular fork, is now struggling with internal feuds, Torrentfreak reported earlier this week.