What happened to Showbox app and will it make a comeback in 2020?

Showbox is one of most popular third-party media streaming services which offers tons of content to users without any cost. It is regarded as a great alternative to subscription-based video streaming platforms such as Netflix and Amazon Prime where it offers free audio-visual content without any account and vertisements. It also offers a smooth user interface and easy navigation. service indexes a number of different torrent clients and sites to stream content and features a massive library of movies and TV series.

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What happened to Showbox app?

Showbox has completely stopped working as majority of servers from where it pulls stream has stopped functioning. When users try to play any content using app, a black screen pops up displaying an error mess. Also, it may give an error when launching application.

Showbox - Legal issues

As you may alrey be aware, Showbox allowed users to stream illegal video content which was against law. A number of production houses and television distributors have filed a lawsuit against streaming service for providing illegal content over web. re have also been lawsuits against websites that particularly promoted Showbox. This has forced developers and promoters to finally shut down services.

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Will Showbox return in 2020?

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As of this year, re hasn't been any news or update on streaming service, but ir latest tweet from last December suggested that it might actually make a comeback, which could be a long time though. However, one should also te that this isn't first time y have discontinued service. Two years ago, re were a number of reports from users claiming that y weren't able to use app, and it was widely ted that Showbox h been shut down at time. Neverless, it me a comeback.  

A number of websites that promoted Showbox app are w displaying a warning mess to users stating that streaming platform is t a legitimate tool for watching copyright-protected content and that movie studios will be able to see user's IP dress and ir entire viewing history which may le to legal troubles for copyright infringement.

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