I understand that use of PopcornTimes is not penalized; Just illegal. As in: This isn’t officially allowed, but there are no legal consequences if you do it anyway.
I’ve read that injured parties (movie producers) can file a civil suit against me for compensation, but then they must first get my IP address, and then they must file a lawsuit so that a judge will force my ISP to make my client data available (no guarantee the judge will approve), then a second lawsuit with damages (also no guarantee of winning).
Then the costs to the film producer are higher than the compensation I have to pay afterwards, so practically no one does it.
Legally, I can continue to use PopcornTime without consequences, but what concerns me is the ethical aspect. If PopcornTime is offering movies without the consent of the movie producer, I don’t think that’s acceptable. I just find it really scandalous. Disgusting, just. Disgraceful.
As film producers, you pump millions of euros into making a film, with dozens of actors, roadblocks, booked hotels, expensive studio equipment, cars, acting clothes and so on. You’ll only get this money back if people buy or rent your movie, from advertising revenue, from selling the action figures the movie is based on (then a feature film is an ad movie), etc. If people take that movie and redistribute it without your permission and without compensating you in any way, you lose revenue.
Why hasn’t anyone filed a lawsuit against PopcornTime?
I mean it’s been over 10 years of different domain names. Hasn’t there been a single movie producer in all these years who has filed a lawsuit against PopcornTime? 
Sometimes clicking on an individual user isn’t worth it because of the time and money it costs, but a platform that offers several thousand movies without the permission of the movie producer…it seems to me like this is worth addressing.
Unless PopcornTime is in a country that doesn’t care about copyright laws. This is also possible.
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