Ok, I was tracking that project for a long time (arguably since its inception) for professional curiosity. I can say that this news is totally bogus. Let me explain:

• The news refer to ONE of the folks of the project (under the .tw domain, for Taiwan?). There's nothing "official" about this folk.
• The original project crashed a very long time ago after they get removed from Github due to pressure from Hollywood. All projects since then (years ago) are unofficial folks.
• You may think that the "indexer" is taken down, but the way popcorn works (and I read the source code once upon a time) is that it can be generated from a range of free data sources online, including torrent trackers and IMDB, which makes it almost impossible to kill. If a "source" is down, a typical dev can simply write a new "driver" to get it back up again.

This is probably nothing, or it could be comms. You never know for sure. However, from a pure technical perspective, it's fake news, sorta.