![]() Two days later, 123movies.to shut itself down following a criminal investigation.Īfter pulling in tens of millions of visitors each month thanks to competing domains being shut down, in May 2021 the operator of yet another 123movies site, operating from 123movies.la, was identified by Hollywood and also forced to shut down.Īs a result, many other unaffected 123movie-branded sites stepped in to reap the benefits. ![]() In March 2018, the MPA described 123movies as the world’s most popular pirate site. A month later it was confirmed that half a dozen additional 123movies domains had also been blocked. The MPA obtained an injunction to block the site in October 2016 after 123movies.to became the most-used pirate site in the UK. The case of long-dead streaming site 123movies provides a good example. Since the sites they impersonate are blocked by ISPs and delisted from Google, pirate site forgeries (not to mention malware sites) often dominate the top results. ![]() In a mainstream piracy scene where blocking has normalized the use of sites that simply resemble the original, imposter sites with big-name branding easily gain traction. Meanwhile, however, another type of irritant has been gaining ground. Thousands are covered by dynamic injunctions, meaning that if previously banned sites use new domains to circumvent blocking, those will be blocked more quickly than the originals, no court process needed. Over the next decade more than 20,000 sites and 75,000 domains would find themselves blocked in 39 countries, a total that now includes mirrors and proxies that facilitate access to previously blocked sites. Within the file-sharing community it was seen as a glorious yet functional display of the ‘hydra effect’. Most looked and functioned like The Pirate Bay itself and by undermining the injunction, quickly became go-to platforms in the UK. To demonstrate the futility of blocking, hundreds of Pirate Bay-themed proxy and mirror sites swarmed online, ready to stick to the man. The injunction couldn’t stop the site from operating but indirectly left its mark in more insidious ways. ![]() Ten years ago the High Court in London ordered all major ISPs in the country to block The Pirate Bay. ![]()
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