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Napster and Limewire were operating commercial entities. Popcorn is just a bunch of random developers making an open source project. How do you take down something which can trivially be replicated (Git is theoretically a distributed VCS)?

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You can still sue the developers to pieces even if the project lives on.

For writing software?

Which torrent or emulator developers have been sued? I can't think of this having ever happened.

We are talking about American copyright predators. Few entities on our planet are more evil and malicious.

.. and others will pick up where they left off.

If you can identify them, and they're in a jurisdiction you can act in.

They've been suing anyone who actually maintains a living instance of Popcorn Time. Maybe they hope that by removing the source code from something as popular as GitHub, this will at least diminish the frequency at which they need to sue.

On almost every Reddit post (European subreddits, German especially) with people asking advice on torrents related cease and desist letter, there are comments "remember not to use Popcorn Time either" and similar even though the post's OP doesn't mention this software. It's like they are conducting a multi front war on Popcorn Time. Glad to see them pissed off and helpless.

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