

Senator and MPAA's current chairman and CEO, said in a release. "Popcorn Time and YTS are illegal platforms that exist for one clear reason: to distribute stolen copies of the latest motion pictures and television shows without compensating the people who worked so hard to make them," Chris Dodd, former U.S. Using comScore data, the MPAA estimates show Popcorn Time had 1.5 million visitors in July, while YTS had over 3.4 million unique visitors in August. 16 requiring web operators to close down Popcorn Time, which has been called the "Netflix for pirates." Another suit was filed in mid-October in New Zealand against the operator of YTS, and the site was subsequently shut down. Six member companies of the MPAA filed suit in federal court in Canada on October 9 against three Canadian operators of the popcorntime.io fork, claiming "the defendants enabled, authorized and induced copyright infringement of motion pictures and television shows." The court issued an injunction on Oct. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) brought legal action against the sites in Canada and New Zealand, and PopcornTime.io, the site that provided the illegal content to Popcorn Time, and YTS have both been shuttered.

Looks like it's back to Netflix: Popcorn Time and YTS, popular torrent sites that had been used for streaming pirated movies free of charge, are no more.
