Spokesperson for Popcorn Hour: – Impossible to stop us – NRK

The anonymous spokesman would not say how many users the service has, but reveals that the program is downloaded over 100,000 times a day.

A recent study shows that the illegal flow service is one of the most used in Norway and according wirepuller is Norway best in the world when it comes to downloading the program.

– Popcorn Hour is doing very well. We do not give out exact user numbers longer, because the page was attacked last time we did it. I can tell that Norway is in fourth place worldwide, behind the United States, the Netherlands and Brazil, he writes in an e-mail to NRK.

Popcorn Time

• Stromme service and free program based on bittorrent network.
• User interface is similar flow services Viaplay and Netflix, but the content is not cleared with rights holders, who do not receive income from the flow.
• The people who currently runs the Popcorn Hour is anonymous. They took over after the original developers would lay down the service.
• Because bittorrent network Popcorn Time is built on, rely on users to continuously share what they have downloaded to other users of the network, is anyone who illegally download content guilty of illegal file sharing by legal definition.

Fear not for their own safety

The person belongs to a group that took over the running of the page after the original domain address was laid down in 2014.

Although the Ministry of Culture has confirmed that the service is illegal and that it has been blocked in Britain, think wirepuller that Popcorn Hour will live on.

– It is impossible to stop Popcorn Time. People have tried, but as you can see we managed to revive the service after it was closed the first time. Popcorn Time depends on bittorrent network and so long as it exists, services Popcorn Hour exist and.

Are you afraid of being arrested?

– Not really, we do not see anything wrong or illegal. We are not anonymous because we fear for their own safety, but because the project has a greater chance of survival if we remain anonymous.

– We see no reason to stop

Not surprisingly, the film industry a strong opponent of the service, partly because it leads to financial losses for the copyright holders behind the television series and movies that can be viewed on Popcorn Hour.

Since the service is dependent on files from pirate sites, mean spokesperson that others are better suited to respond to the Popcorn Hour damage the film industry or not.

– We will make it clear that we are not engaged in piracy. We do not create torrent files. These files were used by millions of people before Popcorn Time. But those who copy movies will probably point out that the film industry makes more money every year, despite the fact that downloading of files also grows.

According to the spokesperson makes the government’s resistance to the service group more determined to continue operations.

– We can envision a situation where we are persuaded to shut the project. Is it possible. But to be quite honest, we see no reason to stop.

One of 12 Norwegians use the illegal flow service Popcorn Time