ACE Shuts Down Filma24, Albania's Movie Piracy Juggernaut (torrentfreak.com)

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For many thousands of Albanians, Filma24 was the top destination for pirated movies and TV shows. This weekend, however, that routine came to an abrupt halt when the site and many of its backup domains went offline. All signs point to an intervention from anti-piracy group ACE and parent organization the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which is the new owner of Filma24's domain names.

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[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

I suppose it’s really time that everything just goes over to torrent and these direct download sites.

Ever since KissAnime went down, it feels like a domino effect. Unfortunately.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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Torrent sites also have the issue of being centralised by having a domain and servers at some place. Imo the reason torrent sites are targeted less is that they are more inconvenient and thus less of a focus for anti-piracy groups. They generally focus on the most prominent way to infringe on their copyright.

Given the increase in piracy services taken down lately, I wouldn't be surprised if a torrent site was hit at some point too. Unfortunately ;)