In a public statement the Norwegian police and prosecution unit notes that the domain is believed to be complicit in criminal copyright infringement by linking to third party content. A post on TorrentFreak reports that the Popcorn-Time.no domain name has been seized by the police there: That was the first step down a slippery slope, and it seems that the second step has now been taken in Norway. As part of the film industry’s attack on Popcorn Time, a UK judge was persuaded a year ago to order a group of web sites to be blocked purely on the grounds that they were distributing the Popcorn Time software. The fact that it is open source - and therefore essentially impossible to eradicate - just makes things worse. Not just because it’s free, but also because it provides an extremely easy-to-use service. Over the last couple of years, the increasing popularity of the open source streaming software Popcorn Time has turned into one of the film industry’s biggest nightmares.
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