Pirate Streaming Giant FMovies Hasn't Updated in a WeekErnesto Van der Sar, 02 Jul 11:17 AM With more than half a billion site visits in just three
 | With more than half a billion site visits in just three months, pirate streaming site FMovies is seen as a major threat by Hollywood. The pirate site rivals legal streaming platforms such as Disney+ in web traffic and has become the poster child for rejuvenated site blocking proposals in the U.S. Congress. Pressure Mounts To illustrate the brazenness of the site, lawmakers in Congress got a demo of the site from MPA's Senior Executive Vice President, Karyn Temple, late last year. This showed how easy it is to stream the latest movies and TV shows in one of the best secured buildings in the country. The operators of FMovies, who allegedly reside in Vietnam, are not oblivious to the controversy. They know that the MPA and ACE are on their heels but have managed to continue their operations despite legal and diplomatic pressure. From the outside, little appeared to change. The site has switched to a new domain name occasionally, possibly to fight back against search engine demotions ...Read More | Next month will mark the 13th anniversary of the first site blocking injunction in the UK. Action by the major Hollywood studios against Usenet indexing site Newzbin led to ISP BT being ordered to block the service. That was just the beginning and in most cases today, major UK ISPs including BT, Virgin Media, and Sky, are supportive of site blocking requests and happily carry them out, despite increasing complexity. UK Site Blocking In broad terms, blocking injunctions allow rightsholders to block domains, subdomains, and IP addresses, depending on the services targeted and the type of injunction obtained. Largely static piracy websites are tackled by blocking domains and subdomains, which are often deployed en masse by pirate sites to circumvent blocking. In many cases, the details of specialist 'live' blocking injunctions targeting IPTV providers are treated as confidential by the High Court. These blocks are usually temporary in nature and designed to prevent piracy of specific...Read More |
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