A few days ago we reported that the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) filed two lawsuits against operators of Popcorn Time and YTS (formerly known as YIFY).
The first lawsuit filed by MPAA was against three Popcorn Time programmers living in Canada, while the second lawsuit was followed a few days later by the YTS.to domain operator, which so far remains anonymous. What we know is that he lives 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 released, but the NZ Herald reports that the YTS owner “lives in a home in the suburbs 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 its internal structure and how it works." teams YIFY.”
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.