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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/movie-industry-touts-takedown-of-worlds-largest-pirate-streaming-ring/
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/movie-industry-touts-takedown-of-worlds-largest-pirate-streaming-ring/
Rascael
VPN and Torrents
sumthinsumthinsumthin
I have noticed a lot of sharing streaming sites going down lately. Couchtuner types. Reddit is having trouble keeping up with alternatives.
KorbinX
Yo ho ho motherfuckers! There will always be a pirate out there mate
PoormanBachelor
I remember when they ran victory laps after taking down Napster. Look how that turned out. For every site that goes down, a dozen more take its place.
Aeonika
Pretty sure we'd all mostly moved on to other clients by the time they'd even managed that.
YeastInfectedWhiskerBiscuit
Studios and IP's will fall into the abyss if pirating was ever completely shut down, or even just made really difficult. If people aren't paying now for your content, they never will, and trying to force them to pay will make them even less likely to give you, your studio, or IP a penny. And media that was once able to reach a massive global audience will be region locked, and the number of possible fans for any given media will drop by 80 or 90%. Jesus, they're so stupid.
CraftyGiant
Lol they took down A streaming site... They think they are winning, that's so cute.
CraftyGiant
Fmovies and vidsrc aren't even in my top ten.
BackToTheOriginalUsername
Oh my, they took down "The mothership"
Thunderbox666
This is talking about pirate streaming services... And yes, they won against piracy, piracy is solved, you can all go home ;) ;)
But seriously the actual impact of this will be less than a blip on the rest of the pirate communities because I doubt the streaming service they shut down made all their own rips to distribute. Another 3 will be up to take it's place within the day using the same sources the shuttered one did
Aeonika
They just pulled it off two or three hosts you could pick from and made it easy to search. Another will take its place as usual if it goes down.
evilspock
As a semi-professional - no they didn't. Not even close. Piracy is very de-centralized. Kill one site, two more pop up. Kill a protocol and a better one is developed. The days you could make a significant dent in activity died when they got Napster, causing a lot of really smart people to recognize and work around single points of failure. Evolution in action.
digitalaaronscustoms
I haven't noticed any blips on the sites I use. Article sounds like total bullshit to me.
METROlD
I lost about 3 recently. I still have a couple. Im not seeing anything new out there. I need to get to reddit etc and see if I cant dig up something new. Theyre getting more and more private and invite only from what Ive seen.
qldonfireunderwater
Executive Technology speech.
Made for executives
Only believed by executives.
Us trolls in the trenches know what’s happening.
reformedxile
they keep taking down fmovies, but it just get put back up with some other letter/number added/changed...like, instead of being www.fmovies it was ww4.fmovies or something
Sliprunner
...meanwhile I am sitting here not even having known about Fmovies, given the places I've checked are still up. Now if only there was anything worth pirating >.> given actually DID go to the theater for the movies I was interested in... the whole... once this year
JCstormz
it will pop up some where else
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
maybe a week at most of interuption before everythings back up and running again.
nobodyspecial995
There was no disruption
EaNasirsExcellentHighGradeCopper
I was being excessively generous to their grossly overinflated "win".
FartsSmellBad
The only problem is that there is not nor has there ever been a "piracy mothership"
whateverthevoicestellme
Yarrrrr! The curse shan’t be lifted til ye provides an easy interface, affordable content, and pay the artists/creators more than ye pay captain hook/ceos who create nothin.
evilspock
I've spent hundreds of dollars on apps in the apple ios store *precisely because* it has historically been cheap and convenient. If I could buy a movie for $5 forever - I wouldn't bother pirating. And - I bought a shitload of DVDs at $5-10 for years because it was worth it to me, so $5 digital distribution DRM-free is perfectly viable. They're just greedy-stupid.
evilspock
Ehhhhh... maybe you don't remember Napster. It wasn't the only way to pirate - but it got very big and very popular, and at least for music calling it the "mothership" wasn't a stretch. Nuking Napster had impact - and caused pirates to evolve to decentralized systems. But yeah - whatever this site was? Never even heard of it. And I can get most popular media free on-demand so "meh".
FartsSmellBad
Napster, Kazaa, Limewire all had their place but Napster was the "household name" for music that's for sure. There's always been lesser known alternatives that feed into each other.