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Global Industry Group ACE Announces Shutdown Of Fmovies, Deemed “World’s Largest Piracy Ring”


Fmovies marketed free movie releases from infringing material.

The authorities acted in partnership with ACE, which includes studios and other content companies to wage legal efforts against infringing sites. Fmovies launched in 2016, but it has taken until now to sideline the service because of the “increasingly complex” nature of investigations, given the “means and methods available to targets to mark their identities and detect evasion,” according to an MPA official. Karyn Temple, the executive vice president and global general counsel for the MPA, went through a demonstration of the Fmovies site in testimony before a congressional committee last year.

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