Action taken in partnership with MPA-led anti-piracy group Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
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Fmovies, described as the world's largest pirate streaming service, has been shut down by police in Vietnam, working with the MPA-led anti-piracy group Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.
The takedown by Hanoi police took down Fmovies and dozens of affiliated piracy sites. Fmovies launched in 2016 and included sites such as bflixz, movies7, myflixer and heymovies. The domain Vidsrc.to, which ACE said was “a notorious video hosting provider operated by the same suspects,” was also taken offline. Between January 2023 and June 2024, the Fmovies syndicate attracted more than 6.7 billion visits, ACE said.
“We’ve brought down the mothership here,” Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association and chairman of ACE, told Variety. “There was a time when piracy was Whac-a-Mole… Today we’re taking piracy to the root.”
