Technology

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.

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.

Yeah, so they took down Fmovies and in turn some other sites under their umbrella. If they believe that is a significant blow to piracy, I'm afraid their whack-a-mole game wasn't even that good to begin with.

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

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.

I feel like this dude should have a “Mission Accomplished” banner hanging behind him.