become a clearinghouse for illegal movie viewing were closed last
month
by orders from courts in Canada and New Zealand, the Motion Picture
Association of America said on Tuesday.
VANS WALL SNEAKERS
The Popcorntime.io site, commonly referred to as Popcorn Time, was
closed under an Oct. 16 order from the Federal Court in Ottawa. YTS.to,
a BitTorrent site whose films were often reached through Popcorn Time,was closed under an interim injunction in a separate suit filed on Oct.
12 in the High Court of New Zealand, the M.P.A.A. said.
Disclosure of the shutdown came after court documents in Canada
were unsealed on Tuesday.
For days, reports in tech media sites had noted problems with the two
sites. “This week has descended into an incredible mess for Popcorn
Time, and the end is not in sight,” noted an Oct. 23 post on TorrentFreak.
That report cited tampering with infrastructure and possible conflicts
among those who maintain the Popcorn Time and YTS sites.
The M.P.A.A. said figures from comScore, a media measurement
company, showed Popcorntime.io to have had 1.5 million unique
visitors in
July 2015. ComScore figures showed that the YTS site had 3.4 million
visitors the following month, the M.P.A.A. said.
According to the association, which represents major film companies in the United States, YTS has a library of about 4,500 film titles in violation of copyright laws.
Attempts to reach developers cited in the Canadian suit as helping to
maintain the Popcorn Time site were unsuccessful.
American film companies have persistently fought infringing sites in
courts around the world, only to see new portals replace those that are shut down. A Popcorn Time site was closed in 2014, for instance, but was replaced by the Popcorntime.io site, which was endorsed by developers of the earlier site.
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