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FWIW, the source code is still around on GitHub, if you'd like to fork it:

https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app

It doesn't seem to mention the license it's released under, though.

The api used to pull movie information and torrent magnet links (subapi.com) has been disabled. Here's a working fork using the yts.re api: https://github.com/isra17/popcorn-app

ok thats weird because I have just finished my working version with tys.re api, and just saw this comment.

here is link that you can find precompiled executables http://kemald.com/pt/popcorn.html and here is my fork https://github.com/cettox/popcorn-app

The Mac version does not run on my Macbook Air running OS X 10.9.2

Interesting, I would look into this when I get my hands on my mac!

Bizzarely, they've erased the entire commit history yet not the source code.

Maybe that was accidental and they intended to destroy it all but screwed up.

I doubt it was an accident, it's trivial to delete a repo on GitHub. I think they wanted their involvement (git commit history) removed from the primary repo.

Indeed. https://github.com/popcorn-time/popcorn-app/graphs/contribut...

Note that they're still listed in every fork of the repo.

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