https://twitter.com/MangaMoguraRE/status/1826430012154687993
https://torrentfreak.com/ace-goes-after-fmovies-sister-site-successors-240824/https://torrentfreak.com/webtoon-targets-170-pirate-domains-through-dmca-subpoena-240821/
Main Drivers:
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The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, (ACE):
The world’s most active anti-piracy coalition, a group who systematically hunts down key piracy players on behalf of the major Hollywood studios and other prominent entertainment companies such as Apple, BBC, and Netflix.
"This week, MPA obtained a DMCA subpoena requiring the .TO domain registry Tonic to share all information it has on the registrants of several domain names." -
Webtoon Entertainment:
"In June, Webtoon Entertainment celebrated going public by sounding the closing bell at the Nasdaq exchange. Thus far, early investors haven't been rewarded, but the company itself sees a bright future ahead. By targeting roughly 170 pirate site domains though a DMCA subpoena, it hopes to unmask their rogue operators and clear the path for future growth." -
Webtoon Publisher Kakao
"Conducted legal action against three only partially named big piracy sites/groups"
Among all instances, leading to the shutdown of several piracy-related sites this month, all groups facilitated action through the Texas Federal Court either individually or collaboratively.
Additionally, all the sites that have been shutdown seem to share a similar outgoing message (Aniwave):
Hi,
You know, it has been a long journey since Aniwave (9Anime) first appeared. Creating better products that provide an improved user experience and fostering competition to drive the market to enhance products is something we are very happy about. Now that everything has improved… it is also time for us to say goodbye...It is difficult to part with something we have invested so much effort and passion into, but it is something we need to do. Thank you for standing by and supporting us throughout this time!
Every game must have an end...and life is about experiences. Every mistake teaches us lessons that help us grow.
If possible, please use legal paid services. It’s something we should do to show our respect for creators and content producers.
Good bye!
Wiz Khalifa - See You Again Linked
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This raises suspicions surrounding the nature of these shutdowns, as most of the owners of these sites have either 'vanished,' or not communicated with their respective teams. While Aniwave is the most dominant, a clone of Anix's servers, the number of shutdowns this month exceed normal amounts.
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Oh noes!
Either way…
Looking forward to the next one poppinh up, no way am i paying money for only a quarter of shows being available
Aniwave was really the best.
Something new will rise of course, you can’t stop the signal, but this will be annoying for a while.
See you all on the next one! 😊
I really doubt that they will let that site go easily after working on it for this long. I expect a “unknown” re-emerge under a new brand some day.
*Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem*.
– [Gabe Newell](https://youtu.be/pLC_zZ5fqFk?si=URBe6aR9MGqfscCM&t=66)
Fuck ! All of this because of fucking webtoon garbage. We need to quarantine the KR community
I still miss og KissAnime
It was great journey of anime with aniwave and 9amine goodbye 😥😥
probably all of them are bailing so they can avoid legal troubles. Lose the fuzz, lose the heat, then probably just redo it after everything is cooled down using some other name. Seems to be a smart move now, dismantle everything, make sure everything is scrubbed and gone. Then vanish into the internet like it never happened.
Sure the site will die, but like hydra. Cut off one head many more will eventually take its place.
It’s very shady that many of those anime video sites using the same shutdown message. My guess is those shutdown messages wasn’t written by the owners of those anime sites but by the evil anti-piracy groups themselves who typed up a shutdown message just to mock it’s viewers by pretending to feel sorry that they shut down those sites.
Any way to get the anime lists out or is it all gone for good?
I regret not exporting my watch history & such for MAL.
EDIT:Just add /user after it’s URL & you can export from there.
Aniwave was more organized and had a better layout than most paid streaming platforms. I really hope the Aniwave team basically reloads the same site under a new domain. Comments, suggestions, ETA for episode drops, and every anime for every season… it set a new standard for anime streaming.
I don’t think some in the pirate community understand how big of a loss this is to the anime and pirating community.
1: What the fuck does this have to do with computers?
2: If you watch movies or shows through dogshit streaming sites instead if just torrenting the file then i have no sympathy for you. Get better at using technology.
I’m subscribed to Crunchyroll, netflix, and Hulu live tv for sports and anime. Despite all 3 of these subscriptions, I still cannot watch almost half of the new shit that comes out, and especially older titles, and especially especially stuff that isn’t as mainstream. It’s insane that if you live in Japan you can open Netflix and see all the newest anime as they air regardless of brand, but nobody else can.
lately I’m hoarding more than usual because plenty of popular sites were shut down
This site was easily better than any streaming service I’ve ever used