As some IPTV networks responsible for broadcasting movies, series and football matches continue to fall, the current news is a A blow to one of the most popular websites all over the planet. And the Fmovies site and its network of affiliated TV series and movies were finally shut down.
It’s all due to The Alliance for Creation and Entertainment (ACE)the global coalition of film studios and visual entertainment companies, including Disney, NBCUnivesal and MGM. The illegal streaming site was announced to be taken down, as were a number of other major websites, including flixz, flixtorz, movies7, myflixer and aniwave.
THE lock your video hosting providervidsrc.to, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It should be noted that the Fmovies operation was carried out in Vietnam. Hanoi police arrested two unidentified men linked to the pirated media empire who are still awaiting indictment.
The figures attributed to Fmovies are unprecedented in the reproduction of this type of content. Fmovies was launched in 2016 and has reached 374 million monthly visits, over 6.7 billion visits since January 2023 to June 2024, which is an indicator of the importance of its dismantling for the global coalition.
There is more data to better understand the caliber of the operation carried out, namely that, according to data extracted from SimilarWeb, Fmovies has positioned itself as the website with the 280th highest number of visits in the world in all categories and the 11th Most Popular Streaming TV Series and Movies.
ACE has called the Fmovies syndicate the largest piracy network on the planet, according to a statement released today. Its operations have even generated had its own subreddit where users could request links to series and movies.
Charles Rivkin, ACE’s president and CEO, called the withdrawal and arrests landslide victory for everyone involved in the creative community from around the world. And in recent weeks, these types of illegal content providers have suffered severe blows, according to Engadgetat a time when they receive many visits from users all over the planet; and this is linked to the growing increase in subscription payments for the most used services.