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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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[–] [email protected] 146 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 months ago

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

[–] shadowedcross 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Those are fake mirrors completely missing aniwave's core features: account watchlists, auto skip intro/outro, auto next, watch together, and the comments don't even work.

Wouldn't surprise me if they're missing the majority of Aniwave's library too

Edit: The search is horrifically basic too. No filters at all, seriously? The clones don't even try to compete 🤦‍♂️

[–] fernlike3923 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's a fake clone...
The original site was this.

[–] activ8r 2 points 3 months ago

🤦‍♂️Imagine being so smug about being wrong🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess you weren't in the ring.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

and from the sound of it, i never will be

[–] priapus 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

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