Agreed. popcorntime.io is fully open source and under active development https://git.popcorntime.io/groups/popcorntime . The other one is a rip off site.

I always had the impression that someone ( or some group ) actively promotes confusion in the bittorrent world.

If I am right, this is a powerful tatic, to raise noise ratio and keep non technical folks away.

It's not clear if any of that is true: https://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2n3dht/time4po...

There are many instances of people reporting boomcheap malware after installing Time4Popcorn (popcorn-time.se): https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/2l3d4t/boomche...

Time4Popcorn probably had to rebrand to popcorn-time.se for these issues. It is not properly open source, while on popcorntime.io you can see the latest source at git.popcorntime.io, on popcorn-time.se you can only get tar balls.

Time4Popcorn (popcorn-time.se) does not even include the node-webkit viewer in their app. The executable itself is just a iframe to http://app.popcorn-time.se/.

That report means very little. The guy actively admits he doesn't even know what to look for, and ran his tests on a default virtual machine without any anti-anti-debugging techniques at all. It is extremely common for malware to detect standard virtual machine setups and not activate their payload.