Summary
Popcorn time, a place where millions of people gathered everyday to watch low-res streams of their favorite films, is dead.
Or is it? According to Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Jason Koebler, rumors of the demise of the Netflix of Piracy have been greatly exaggerated. According to Jason, Popcorn time is likely unkillable.
It’s the first Cyber back after the holiday break and there’s a lot to talk about. After Jason and Matthew run through a brief history of pirating things online, they turn their attention to Call of Duty. Activision has revealed the identity of people it says are selling cheats to Warzone players. Now, it’s suing them.
We also talk about recently released pictures of the one of a kind Wu Tang Clan album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin obtained through a Freedom of Information Act Request. Judging by the pictures, the album wasn’t treated well while in government custody. And finally, we round out the week by talking about the CharaCorder—a keyboard so advanced that some people think it’s cheating.
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| 0:00.0 | TAM! It's got the code. It's going to launch. |
| 0:11.8 | It's a unit system. I know this. |
| 0:16.2 | It's how all the files of the whole park. It tells you everything. |
| 0:20.2 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:22.9 | Eagle One, the package is being delivered. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello, there in cyberspace, Popcorn Time, a place where millions of people gathered |
| 0:31.0 | every day to watch low-res streams of their favorite films, is dead. Or is it? |
| 0:37.1 | According to Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Jason Kebler, |
| 0:39.7 | rumors of the demise of Netflix of piracy have been greatly exaggerated. |
| 0:45.4 | According to Jason, Popcorn Time is Unkillable. |
| 0:49.6 | I'm Matthew Gull, and this is Cyber. |
| 0:53.0 | Jason, thank you so much for coming on to Cyber and talking us through the death of popcorn time, |
| 0:58.9 | the much touted death of popcorn time. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, it's good to be back. |
| 1:04.9 | It's a brand new year. |
| 1:06.2 | Did you have a good break slash holiday? |
| 1:09.8 | I did. |
| 1:10.8 | I had to go back home to Texas, which was a little more frightening than I was expecting. |
| 1:16.3 | It was East Texas. |
| 1:17.9 | And even though I live in South Carolina, I was not expecting the complete lack of COVID response there. |
| 1:26.0 | It was a little bit shocking. |
| 1:27.1 | Like, restaurant workers just not wearing masks, no masks. the complete lack of COVID response there was a little bit shocking. |
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