In that regard, you and the movie industry have something in common. You both spread FUD around to get your point across.
This is FUD.
Neither of them are distributed by the original devs, how certain are you that they are not injecting malware into the binaries?
This question is a logical fallacy, in that a negative can't be proved in the context of this particular problem set. You would need to prove the inverse, namely that you are certain that significant numbers of binaries of Popcorn Time contain malware, and how you arrived at that conclusion.
You just have to do a quick google search to find that even the original devs are concerned about the number of forks, and malware-riddled copies of Popcorn Time [0]
Also, there's been a number of reports that the most famous forks contain adware [1]
[0] https://torrentfreak.com/popcorn-time-warns-users-against-ma...
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2lyxnm/time4po...
If you want to point out that the author is bias hacking, fine, but don't move into "fact" mode using weakly biased arguments. You have no evidence that significant numbers of Popcorn Time instances have viruses or malware in them. When you do have that evidence, come back here and state it as such, instead of presenting a hypothesis as a fact as you are currently doing.
I would point out that having an opinion about the piece is totally valid. It's just not cool to make a biased argument on your own opinion with "facts" that are simply your own hypotheses.