Our official response to the recent unjustified attacks that have been made on different platforms against time4popcorn.eu:
We are all Popcorn Time users just like yourselves, and when the original project was taken down it was clear to us that we will not let this technology die. Without hesitation we took the the files and put them online for download.
Time4popcorn.eu was the first available source on the Internet to download Popcorn Time after the original was taken down. We just went for it because we wanted to keep using this awesome program and allow all the other users to keep using it.
The enthusiastic responses came instantly after the launch, and taking the risk of sounding corny- they really touched us. We understood suddenly how much this project meant not only to us, but to thousands of people from all over the world. That's when we really made the decision to take this project upon our selves and to make Popcorn Time the best live streaming app that ever existed. And to prove this, a week after we first launched we already managed to put TV series on our version of Popcorn Time, which was not an easy task.
For the past two months we've been living, breathing (and not sleeping) Popcorn Time, in order to realize this goal that we've set for ourselves. And very soon we are going to.... no, scratch that, the world is going to harness the fruits of all this hard work. The fruits are the Android app, a working version for Windows XP, Chromecast support, smart TV version, and even built in VPN to ensure that everyone in the world will be able to use Popcorn Time.
To our dismay:
In the past 2 weeks we have witnessed a huge unprecedented attack, that has been aimed at destroying everything we've worked so hard on day and night for the past 2 months.
A group of only 20 developers who love using the word "official" made us into their worst nemesis and frankly- we don't know why.
We have nothing (or better say had nothing) against this group, but awe for the great work that they've been doing. When they first started attacking us we tried to reach out a friendly hand to tell them that we are all on the same boat, going for the same mission- to save Popcorn Time. We may have different ways of approaching this mission, but the final destination is the same.
But unfortunately they wouldn't listen to us.
So we decided to try and ignore them and just to focus on our project, believing that when the world will see what we accomplished and how great and useful our app is they will realize on their own that these accusations this other group is making are nothing but evil attempts of another team to destroy us.
In fact, the only reason we're not sitting in our quiet room coding now and not giving every bit of energy we've got to finishing the last touches on the Android App (which we hoped to release today) is because Techcrunch asked for our response to this team's allegations against us. So at this moment, we're not coding. We're writing to defend ourselves against a group of developers who spend their time making accusations instead of working on an awesome project they took upon themselves.
This may sound radical, but these things they are doing in our perspective not only jeopardize our hard work, but maybe even the whole existence of Popcorn Time since potential users who want to download Popcorn Time see it's "not safe" and withdraw from their plan all together.
So this is our official statement to let everyone know that the time4popcorn's version of Popcorn Time is 100% safe for install and eventually we'll give you the best, ultimate watching experience. You can ask any tech reporter that wrote a great article about the progress we're making and the endless vision we have for this project.
You can ask the huge number of users who are watching movies and TV shows using time4popcorn.eu while we're writing these words and while you're reading them. Very soon they will be doing so on their Android.
As for the nonsense of "stealing" code from others and not giving credit:
In the upcoming weeks, sooner than you think, time4popcorn will work for the first time on Windows XP. We will have Chromecast support, release an Android version, a smart TV version and everything else we wrote above.
In order to achieve all of this we had to develop the whole app over from scratch. The current Popcorn Time is built on technology called NodeWebkit which cannot support our vision, therefore we rebuilt everything from the ground up using Delphi, C++ and Javascript. This new, stronger version of Popcorn Time will also include a new video player which will support every video format out there, a thing that will enable our app to use every video torrent which exists on the web. It will also have a new cross-platform Bittorent engine.
All of these developments will be released as open source under GPL V3 license for the world to use.
Approx 2 months ago we released our version of Popcorn time called time4popcorn. On the top of our home page we wrote these words that are the most important for us: "this PopcornTime service will never be taken down".
We see this as the first attempt to take us down, first out of many which with no doubt we are expected to receive down the road, so this is our first chance to prove these words we wrote and that we believe in:
We are not going to be taken down. We are here to stay.
And we're definitely not here to play "Popcorn Time Wars" we're just here to develop Popcorn Time.
Thanks,
time4popcorn.eu
