The settings can be accessed by clicking on the small gear icon in the upper right corner, and from there users can choose the default quality of the video (720p or 1080p), the language of the default subtitle and the size, access the account for scrobbling purposes, and set a few options for Internet connection. These are all the things that have to be decided by the regular user, although there are some settings if you really want to tweak the software. The list is ordered by default with the help of a few filters like genre, popularity, recent additions, and so on. All the entries in the list have thumbnails, and all are showing a short synopsis and a trailer before playing the actual movie. The main interface of the application shows two major categories in the upper left corner, Movies and TV Shows. They did this by making the software very easy to use, as it requires almost no input from the user. The developers of Popcorn Time have said from the start that one of their goals was to expose just how wrong the current online distribution platforms are. The only problem for users would be a slow Internet connection, but that has nothing to do with the software itself.
I tested the application on a number of different systems and it looks like it's running flawlessly on pretty much everything. As far as I know, it hasn't been integrated in any repositories, probably for legal reasons. It doesn't need to be installed and there are no dependencies that have to be met. Popcorn Time comes as an archive and users just have to extract it and run the binary file. In fact, a couple of forks have already been made, but the developers from the initial project have said that their work is not acknowledged by the others.
The application is open source and is hosted on GitHub, which means that anyone can take it and do pretty much what they want with it. The project even went dark for a while after getting too much attention, but the devs have bounced back. Popcorn Time can be simply considered a media player, but its developers (who have remained anonymous) say that it was made to show how the current system used by regular distribution channels is broken. It’s your duty, as a user, to decide if you want to employ this application or not. Whether this is moral has nothing to do with the way the application works, so we won't dwell on it any longer. Most people would say that downloading a movie from a P2P website and watching it without paying anything is illegal, but that is actually debatable and depends from country to country. It sounds illegal, but the developers say it's not. Popcorn Time is a P2P media player built for one purpose – to allow its users to watch the latest TV shows and Movies directly from torrent sources, without downloading the actual files.
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