Anti-piracy Group Says World's Largest Streaming Pirate Operation Is Shuttered

The anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) and the Hanoi, Vietnam, police took down the world's largest pirate streaming operation, which included popular site Fmovies as well as others, ACE said. Fmovies' takedown "is a stunning victory for casts, crews, writers, directors, studios, and the creative community across the globe,” ACE Chairman and Motion Picture Association CEO Charles Rivkin said. The pirating operation, ACE said, launched in 2016 and included associate sites bflixz, flixtorz, movies7, myflixer and aniwave. Combined, the pirate sites saw more than 6.7 billion visits between January 2023 and June 2024. ACE said Vidsrc.to, a video-hosting provider the suspects operated, was also taken down, affecting hundreds of additional piracy sites. ACE members include Amazon, Netflix, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures, Disney Studios and Warner Bros. Discovery.