A new project by the creators of Popcorn Time appeared in the middle of the the upheavals we have been experiencing over the last few days. Project Butter is a new version of the service that essentially "removes parts that made users cautious."
Because Popcorn without butter is not made
No, the new project doesn't directly facilitate copyright infringement, but it does appear to remove key features that make it possible to stream movies and shows from Bittorrent.
Project Butter includes all the pieces you need to have a "great streaming service", and no direct links to piracy.
The Development Team (which was left after the beginning of the week) stated that he left GitHub for themecopyright, as some did not contribute that much. By splitting the streaming engine, they hope they'll be able to get more developers on board. Basically the team is trying to solve one of the problems that surfaced in the last week.
Developers who develop the software used by the service are afraid of their persecution by the Authorities.
Project Butter was announced in a post on the Popcorn Time blog, but was quickly taken offline as it reportedly suffers from a attack in its DNS.
On Twitter, the team said it would start streaming open content, such as the Internet Archive content.
This move is apparently intended to use the core technology of Popcorn Time as a legitimate service, while in the background it will still allow services that provide copyrighted content.
You can read all the announcement from the link at the end of the publication.
Update: For now, both butterproject.org as well as the popcorntime.io is not online. From group Twitter, they claim that their DNS provider is attacking.
https://blog.popcorntime.io/anouncing-butter
The test page is online
https://butterproject.github.io/
