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Fmovies Piracy Ring Was Shut Down by Vietnam, Assisted By ACE
Ernesto Van der Sar, 29 Aug 04:29 PM

Pirate sites tend to come and go but in recent months, significant shutdowns have been more frequent than usual.

Fmovies is one of the most prominent casualties. Founded in 2016, the pirate streaming site had been a thorn in Hollywood's side for years. While rightsholders typically avoid naming pirate sites in public, fearing an indirect promotional effect, Fmovies was a recent exception.

To illustrate how brazen the platform had become, lawmakers in U.S. Congress received a demo of the site late last year courtesy of MPA Senior Executive Vice President, Karyn Temple. This showed how easily the latest movies and TV shows could be illegally streamed inside one of the country's best-secured buildings.

Something had to be done to prevent this from happening and the MPA already had a solution in mind; site blocking. However, since implementing new legislation is a slow process, that raised the prospect of Fmovies and a myriad of related streaming portals continuing to operate.

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