Last week we learned about the final shutdown of the popular tracker YTS, as well as the streaming service Popcorn Time.
The closing of the two sites as we originally knew it began with the split of the Popcorn Time development team. However, no one knew exactly the reasons that caused this split. 
Today, however, according to Variety, we know the cause which is none other than the film industry.
The MPAA contacted Popcorn Time on October 16 after filing three separate lawsuits in Canada and informed them that within the month they must stop their services.
Additionally, it filed a lawsuit in New Zealand against YTS.
The president of the MPAA, Mr. Chris Dodd, said that their actions aim to combat online piracy
Popcorn Time and YTS are illegal platforms that exist for a clear purpose: to distribute stolen copies of the latest movies and TV shows, without compensating the people who worked hard to create them.
The lawsuits that were filed coincided with the decision of the Popcorn Time developers to abandon the space.
Some of those developers created Butter, which is designed to bypass many of the legal issues it had with Popcorn Time (i.e., active connections and streaming illegal content) by streaming legal content, using torrent again.
How this will be done, no one knows.. However, the developers give hope to the service's friends:
Within the next few days we will finish the porting from the Popcorn Time git to the Butter repos on Github. You can give us a hand, or sit back and relax, as the project develops.
See you soon with more Buttered Popcοrn Time folks!
