Fmovies Has Gone Offline, the End of a Pirate Streaming Giant?Ernesto Van der Sar, 17 Jul 11:29 AM When Fmovies first appeared on the scene in 2016,
 | When Fmovies first appeared on the scene in 2016, it quickly gained popularity among streaming piracy fans. Copyright holders were less pleased. They swiftly recognized the new threat and just months after the site was launched, Fmovies found itself being sued in a U.S. Court. The copyright infringement lawsuit and the $210,000 damages award were casually ignored by the site's owners. Instead, Fmovies continued to focus on providing free entertainment to the masses, profiting from this activity through advertisements. In recent years, rightsholder representatives, including the MPA, worked hard to maintain the pressure. They pinpointed the site's operators in Vietnam and teamed up with local authorities to address the threat. In addition, U.S. authorities and lawmakers were repeatedly warned about the site. Last fall, lawmakers in Congress got a demonstration of the site from MPA's Senior Executive Vice President, Karyn Temple. This showed how easy it is to stream the latest movies...Read More | At the start of the 2010s, Movie2k was one of the most visited sites on the web. The site was an early adopter of pirate streaming and at its peak, secured a spot among the twenty most-visited websites in Germany, beating Twitter and Amazon. Movie2k's success generated a healthy revenue stream which its operators converted to a new and exciting 'currency' called Bitcoin. It's assumed that the goal was to keep the haul hidden from prying eyes. That initially appeared to work well, but it didn't last. The Movie2k reign came to an end in 2013, when the site mysteriously went offline. The site's closure fueled suspicion of legal issues, which was eventually confirmed years later when German police announced several arrests. Arrests and Bitcoin Seizures The arrests resulted in numerous convictions over the years and in 2020 the authorities also seized 2,700 bitcoins. However, this number pales in comparison to the amount that was confiscated earlier this year as part of an ongoing pros...Read More |
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