We posted about the open-source, cross-platform, free utility Popcorn Time a few months ago. The original application was taken down after threats by anti-piracy agencies, but was open-sourced which resulted in numerous forks making it virtually impossible to block the application (Don't forget to enjoy behind the scene story in this animated video from the developer shared below).

A new avatar of the app now not only supports Netflix styled one-click, high-quality, movie and TV streaming but also allows user to enjoy the cover of privacy by providing seamless free VPN anonymity. This VPN feature will now automatically mask users' web traffic from their cable service providers, an Android application is also been developed for mobile usage.

Movie piracy just got super-easy with "Popcorn Time", a cross-platform app for Windows, Mac and Linux allowing users to watch latest Hollywood movies streaming to their computers utilizing bit-torrent protocol almost instantly. The utility puts NetFlix to shame, instead of occasional new releases and B-list back catalog provided by Netflix, this ones offers an impressive movie selection catalogue including the latest ones (because they are being offered using illegally shared torrents).

Popcorn Time takes away the technicality limitation of bit-torrent for casual users and offers them a free, simple and cross-platform tool to select latest and other older movies from a carefully curated catalogue and just click on the "Movie Cover" to start watching.

Ever wondered who is behind removal of videos you just wanted to see, but was presented by message saying the video was removed due to some kind of TOS violation, YouTomb - a research project by MIT Free Culture can provide you with some valuable stats, YouTomb continually monitors more then 225051 videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns.