Top Movie Piracy Ring Taken Down, Major Studios’ Enforcement Group Claims
An anti-piracy coalition composed of major studios in the U.S. and across the globe is claiming victory against Fmovies, a significant streaming operation based in Vietnam.
On Thursday, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment revealed that it had worked with Hanoi police to shutter Fmovies and affiliated sites, which together made up “the largest pirate streaming operation in the world,” according to the organization. With sites including bflixz, flixtorz, movies7, myflixer and aniwave in addition to Fmovies, the operation attracted more than 6.7 billion visits between January 2023 and June 2024, Ace says.
The effort also shut down video hosting provider Vidsrc.to and its affiliated sites, which were “operated by the same suspects,” per Ace. Two Vietnamese men were arrested by Hanoi police in connection with Fmovies and have yet to be charged.
Charles Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of Hollywood trade group the Motion Picture Association and the chairman of Ace,...
On Thursday, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment revealed that it had worked with Hanoi police to shutter Fmovies and affiliated sites, which together made up “the largest pirate streaming operation in the world,” according to the organization. With sites including bflixz, flixtorz, movies7, myflixer and aniwave in addition to Fmovies, the operation attracted more than 6.7 billion visits between January 2023 and June 2024, Ace says.
The effort also shut down video hosting provider Vidsrc.to and its affiliated sites, which were “operated by the same suspects,” per Ace. Two Vietnamese men were arrested by Hanoi police in connection with Fmovies and have yet to be charged.
Charles Rivkin, the chairman and CEO of Hollywood trade group the Motion Picture Association and the chairman of Ace,...
- 8/29/2024
- by Katie Kilkenny
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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