A few days ago, we reported that MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) filed two lawsuits against Popcorn Time and YTS (formerly known as YIFY).
The first lawsuit filed by the MPAA was against three Popcorn Time developers who live in Canada, while the second treatment it followed a few days later, against the operator of the YTS.to domain, which has so far remained anonymous. What we do know is that he resides in New Zealand.
The MPAA with the two lawsuits asks the court for precautionary measures to prevent the two services from opening again.
According to information coming from the NZ Herald, an agency news from New Zealand, the MPAA's lawsuit against the YTS operator "appears to have already ended as both parties reached an out-of-court settlement."
Details of the deal have not yet been made public, but the NZ Herald says the owner of YTS "lives in a house on the outskirts of Auckland", New Zealand's largest city (not the capital).
Common sense says that if the anonymous administrator of YTS doesn't want to go to jail or pay huge fines, he should probably "give away confidential information about the internal structure and how modeof the YIFY team.”
Since the release YIFY movie group has several members in many countries (Russia and Eastern Europe), many suspect that the YTS administrator will try to buy his freedom by giving his former partners.
Meanwhile, TorrentFreak reports that MPAA is now the legal owner of domain yts.to.
