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MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership” (arstechnica.com)

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[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 152 points 3 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

[-] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 3 months ago

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

[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 48 points 3 months ago

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

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 66 points 3 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

[-] Nima@leminal.space 18 points 3 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.

[-] Thassodar@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Hey what were those two sites so I can avoid them, don't wanna accidentally pirate something yar har fiddly dee ifyouknowwhatimsayin

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, aniwave hurt... really easy UI, looked nice.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago

I guess you weren't in the ring.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago

and from the sound of it, i never will be

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Aniwave was probably the best anime streaming site, mainly because its the only one with a functional watch together feature. I also haven't heard of any of the others though.