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Seems to be getting the file from: https://coinado.io

So with this, i really question the "privacy" and legality of this service and coinado.io.

Popcorn time never pretended to be legal. It just provided great user experience to "old" torrenting.

Of course, i don't think i even mentioned Popcorn.

Coinado should be legal as far as I can tell - in the same way a torrent client is perfectly legal.

They may have to respond to takedown requests or similar though, but seeing as how they only know the hash it will be a lot easier for them to claim ignorance

I'm not sure what your privacy concerns are... You can track clients downloading torrents pretty easily, if anything this would help as it adds another layer of indirection

They are providing direct streams/links to the downloaded files on popcorn.

The issue is that that has nothing to do with torrents - it's a direct link to the FILE of the movie, plain and simple.

Oh, i'm sure popcorninyourbrowser is totally illegal and will probably be shutdown soon.

coinado seems like it should be ok though

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