You remember Popcorn Time, the Netflix for torrents that suffered a self-inflicted death? Well, it never really died. The open source project lives on in the form a forked app version, available for download for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Today, it comes to Android.
The app is a faithful reproduction of the original streaming website: Pick from a curated set of recent titles or search the catalog, then after a brief buffering period, the app streams like it was any other streaming service, which of course, it’s not. It’s simply piecing together the torrent from peers and ensuring what’s directly ahead is loaded. The main difference from the original service is that, you know, it’s an open source app so it can’t ever really be killed except by some kind of ISP interference with the BitTorrent protocol.
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Full article is here : Popcorn Time for Android: Stream Movie Torrents on Your Phone for Free
Gizmodo – 05/08/2014