Fmovies takedown "is a stunning victory," MPA CEO Charles Rivkin said.
  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 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.

    • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 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).

      • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        3 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).

        • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Maybe. I know several technotards who think they’ve discovered black magic because of an Ebaums World quality site where they have to watch 20 ads per shitty 720p movie and they run around telling everyone they meet about the site. These sites spring up, spread like fire, and get merkd fast af. Meanwhile torrent sites last YEARS by being a little more underground.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 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.

  • Kalkaline @leminal.spaceEnglish
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    3 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.

  • Rin@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    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

    • Gestrid@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Aniwave (formerly known as 9anime) was, from what I understand, the site most people fled to after KissAnime bit the dust.

    • priapus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      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.

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        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.spaceEnglish
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          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.eeEnglish
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            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