MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership”
MPA says no more “Whac-a-Mole” with pirate sites, claims it took down “mothership”
Fmovies takedown "is a stunning victory," MPA CEO Charles Rivkin said.
Fmovies takedown "is a stunning victory," MPA CEO Charles Rivkin said.
Another MPA official, Chief Content Protection Officer Larissa Knapp, said the group anticipates "ongoing joint efforts with Vietnamese authorities, US Homeland Security Investigations, and the US Department of Justice International Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (ICHIP) program to bring the criminal operators to justice."
Let me get this straight. US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is working with corporations to safeguard their profit? I guess it's true what people say about US being an oligarchy.
More like a Corptocraty
It won't take long for a bunch more sites to pop up to replace the ones that were taken down. The worse the legal streaming sites get, the more pirate sites there will be.
This. When paid usability is worse than pirated, that's when piracy surges, always. Why would anyone want to deal with 10 different sites just to see what's available, when pirate sites has the whole catalog indexed and searchable in a single place.
With Fmovies dominating the pirate traffic it did seem like there wasn't much other options. Now that they are out of the way more and more appear every day hoping to take that position. All they created was a power vacuum that will always be completed over.
You can't stop the signal
What if I have a sword?
It’s adorable that they think they can actually make a dent.
More likely they know full well they can’t, they just want to pacify some shareholders.
"Look how big this mole was! Surely it was so big we shall never have to play whack-a-mole again. Game over. Everybody go home. We've defeated moles."
George Bush "Mission Accomplished" banner intensifies
I feel like this dude should have a “Mission Accomplished” banner hanging behind him.