An international anti-piracy coalition has shut down Fmovies, a based in , in a major victory for the . The coalition, which includes major studios and is led by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), revealed on Thursday that it worked with police in to . The operation also saw the shutdown of video hosting provider Vidsrc.
to and its affiliated sites, which were operated by the same suspects. Two Vietnamese men were arrested by Hanoi police in connection with the case but have not yet been charged, said. Charles Rivkin, chairman of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and ACE, praised the shutdown as a big moment for the global creative community.
In a statement, he called it “ ”. “We took down the mothership here,” he was quoted as saying by . “There was a time when piracy was Whac-a-Mole.
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” ACE includes members like Netflix, Apple TV+, Amazon and Walt Disney Studios. Larissa Knapp, a senior executive at the MPA, emphasised that the action serves as a strong deterrent and expressed a commitment to ongoing collaboration with various authorities to prosecute those responsible. “We look forward to ongoing joint efforts with Vietnamese authorities, US Homeland Security Investigations and the US Department of Justice International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (ICHIP) program to bring the criminal operators to justice,” she said.
The operation included other sites like Bflixz, Flixtorz, Movies7, and Myflixer, and was described.