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‘World’s largest’ piracy ring Fmovies shut down by police in Vietnam
Major film studio group Ace spearheaded takedown of piracy operation that garnered billions of site visits yearly
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (Ace), whose governing members include Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon and the Walt Disney Studios, announced Thursday that it worked with Hanoi police to shut down Fmovies and affiliated sites. The illegal consortium, with sites including Bflixz, Flixtorz, Movies7 and Myflixer in addition to Fmovies, constituted “the largest pirate streaming operation in the world”, according to Ace, with more than 6.7bn visits between January 2023 and June 2024. Online subreddits have discussed the shutdown in recent days, with one user posting: “Between last night and this morning everyone woke up to the streaming apocalypse of their beloved sites being deleted by Uncle Sam.
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