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[-] [email protected] 152 points 10 months ago

Fmovies, which the film industry group also called the "world's largest piracy ring," is said to have drawn more than 6.7 billion visits between January 2023 and June 2024. Launched in 2016, the Hanoi-based outfit included pirate sites bflixz, flixtorz, movies7, myflixer, and aniwave.

i've never heard of a single one of those

[-] [email protected] 95 points 10 months ago

The MPA is so out of touch. Let's not tell them.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago

Aniwave is very unfortunate, it was the best for streaming anime. Haven't heard of the others though.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 10 months ago

i'd put my money on there being another "aniwave" soon, rather than streaming anime is gone forever

the fact that these morons think that piracy depends on some singular centralized "mothership" that controls everything just demonstrates how clueless they are

[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

doing a search just now, I saw two pop up. super functional as well.

these fellas ain't too bright. let's continue to allow them to think they are.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

I guess you weren't in the ring.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

and from the sound of it, i never will be

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[-] [email protected] 118 points 10 months ago

Most assuredly; that gentleman doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.

What he IS doing— is justifying his expenditure.

It will come to nothing anyway.

What a poop-nosed loser.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Thank you. I have now added "poop-nosed loser" to my insult repitour.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 97 points 10 months ago

This sounds a bit like declaring victory in the war on drugs after shutting down one (1) cocaine operation

[-] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

Yes, I literally laughed aloud. The sheer arrogance in certainty projected is a dead giveaway.

[-] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago

Fmovies? Never heard of... wait, sorry, what I meant to say was OH NO!!! Not Fmovies!!! Guess I'm going to have to buy everything now!!!!!11!1

Arr.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

pirates just need to for a while pretend to post in a way that piracy is really no more so they stop doing anything about it.

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[-] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the thing about whack a mole is you, the player, do not get to decide if more moles pop up.

also, yeah, i've never heard of this and the fuckin piratebay is still up. i literally tell my students to use torrents and a vpn for anything they cant afford and might want to watch for class.

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago

Cool,so we can defund the MPA now that their job is done.

It is done, right?

Right?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

It's not like it's a government agency, it's a film company group. Defund it by never paying for a movie and getting everyone everywhere to never pay for a movie

[-] [email protected] 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's it folks, they got the big boss. Wrap it up and let's go back to spending hundreds of dollars a month across dozens of platforms to not own any of the media we consume.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 10 months ago

So the MPA will shut down now, right?

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[-] [email protected] 52 points 10 months ago

Alt headline: Crusty old worthless white dude justifies himself to other crusty worthless white dudes.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

The gereatric clowns are fucking annoying.

Makes me want to torrent harder but there is but so much content one person can consume lol

Dont fund your oppressors folks!

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago

Oh shit, they know about the mothership. /s

[-] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago

I'll be honest, I didn't even know about fmovies until everyone started talking about it here recently. I've just used Torrent sites for downloading, and Stremio for streaming and I have not noticed much hiccups.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

What they took down is an easily accessible public server that hosts content itself and is accessed by tens of thousands of technologically illiterate people via their phones - with no VPN - constantly. These folks are streaming movie after movie, 720p cam jobs, making these sites light up like the 4th of July (or like a Christmas tree, whatever reference works for you).

[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Makes sense, though that just gives the impression that this site isn't anything special. I swear there's a million and a half streaming sites by now, and I would bet everyone using FMovies has found clones or alternatives (if they didn't already know of some).

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[-] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago

yeah, stunning victory lea-think

[is torrenting as she writes this]

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites

Why would you say something you know you'll regret having said?

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago

Tomorrow: a new mothership!

[-] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

Sure thing, bro. 👍

[-] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

Damnit guys, they beat us!

[-] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

The mothership is down? I didn't even notice.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago

If that's what you want to believe then I will not be the one to stop you :)

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

Fighting piracy is like a caveman with a pointy stick trying to fight a 3 headed hydra from Greek mythology. The only way for them to truly defeat the hydra is an idea they would never accept because they aren't allowed to treat customers/consumers as people.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

so called mothership being taken down meanwhile I am about to watch a newly downloaded show once my breakfast is done

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Let me just say.... LOL

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Who? Oh, didn't even notice.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

eyup. mission accomplished and no worries going forward.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Private tracker I've been using for like 17 years still works.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Amazon, Apple, Comcast, Disney, Fox, HBO, Hulu, MGM, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Paramount, Sony, and Warner Bros.

Joke's on you MPA, I don't watch any modern trash produced by these "entertainment" companies.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My go to site which has most of what I'm looking for is still up. So much for that lmao.

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I think I2P will get a new wave of users willing to pirate stuff

[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I doubt it. Streaming sites like Fmovies are used almost entirely by technologically illiterate users. It's for people who want to pirate, but don't want to learn anything.

These users are going to remain helpless until the next malware-laden streaming website enters their lives.

They're not about to install additional software to try to access anything, or at least not software like I2P or BitTorrent, because that would require effort and some amount of technical understanding to accomplish.

This is like wondering why so many people still use Twitter two years into Elon's hostile takeover. People will resign themselves to defeat if it saves them from having to learn anything new.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I think they think that Fmovies was actually relevant.

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