• letsgo@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    Fmovies? Never heard of… wait, sorry, what I meant to say was OH NO!!! Not Fmovies!!! Guess I’m going to have to buy everything now!!!11!1

    Arr.

  • casmael@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    This sounds a bit like declaring victory in the war on drugs after shutting down one (1) cocaine operation

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      20 days ago

      Yes, I literally laughed aloud. The sheer arrogance in certainty projected is a dead giveaway.

  • Theidiam@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    Most assuredly; that gentleman doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about.

    What he IS doing— is justifying his expenditure.

    It will come to nothing anyway.

    What a poop-nosed loser.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    21 days 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

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      18 days ago

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

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      19 days 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.

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        21 days 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

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
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    20 days ago

    Cool,so we can defund the MPA now that their job is done.

    It is done, right?

    Right?

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    Fighting piracy is like a caveman with a pointy stick trying to fight a 3 headed hydra from Greek mythology. The only way for them to truly defeat the hydra is an idea they would never accept because they aren’t allowed to treat customers/consumers as people.

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    20 days 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.

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      20 days 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).

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    21 days ago

    the thing about whack a mole is you, the player, do not get to decide if more moles pop up.

    also, yeah, i’ve never heard of this and the fuckin piratebay is still up. i literally tell my students to use torrents and a vpn for anything they cant afford and might want to watch for class.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      20 days 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.