Popular pirate streaming site 123movies, also known as 123movieshub and GoMovies, has announced its shutdown. According to a message posted on the site, it will close its doors at the end of the week. At the same time, the operators are now urging their users to respect filmmakers by paying for movies and TV-shows.

With millions of visitors per day, 123movies(hub), also known as Gomovies, is one of the largest pirate streaming sites on the web.

However, according to a new message posted on the site, this will soon end. The site’s operators say that they will shut down at the end of the week.

“We’ve been providing links to movies and shows for years. Now it’s time to say goodbye. Thank you for being our friends and thanks for staying with us that long,” the 123movies team writes.

In addition, 123movies encourages its users to “respect” filmmakers by paying for movies and TV-shows instead of pirating them.

“PS: Please pay for the movies/shows, that’s what we should do to show our respect to people behind the movies/shows,” the team adds.




The shutdown announcement, which is currently only visible on the classic homepage, comes a few days after the MPAA branded the site as the the most popular illegal site in the world.

“Right now, the most popular illegal site in the world, 123movies.to (at this point), is operated from Vietnam, and has 98 million visitors a month,” MPAA’s Executive Vice President & Chief of Global Content Protection, Jan van Voorn said.

That wasn’t the first time the site had been called out. Last year the US Ambassador to Vietnam called on the local Government to criminally prosecute the site’s operators on their alleged home turf. In addition, the site was also on the radar of the office of the US Trade Representative, which featured 123movies in its latest Notorious Markets report.

While 123movies has changed names several times over the course of the last few months, it was still a relative newcomer. It first emerged less than three years ago, but quickly became a dominant player.

According to the announcement, however, it will be all over in a few days. With millions of potential estranged users, that will leave a huge gap to fill.

The reason for the planned closure decision is unknown. Speculation would suggest legal pressure being high on the list, but the 123movies team hasn’t commented on its motivation.

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This post has been edited by jeff10012003: Mar 22 2018, 09:54 AM

1 gugur, 1000 naik

got demand, got supply

iflix kan ade

where to stream after this..... last yr is good... but their server seem selow...i watch keep buffing..

take down 1 site, and 2 more shall rise

/k klau ade link pls share tenkiu

It's like telling a child not to eat junk food coz it's bad for their health. No fark given

looks like the authorities getting closer tracking owner down, terus mau tutup liao

got what alternative?

sudah insaf

stop watching that site few months back, now using Netflix and iflix

Actually I don't think this is true. The authorities are slowly but surely shutting down all of the popular pirate sites.

Will subscribe if they show the latest movies which was in theaters. But all the movies on those streaming site are old movies.

this

how old is old?
hope not like astro before, showing b grade movies from the 70's - 80's

They will show after latest movies not longer in cinemas, who will go cinema if latest movies in netflix/iflix

f kan ada

sudah sampai KPI

Torrent je

but never as good
those torrent sites for example, last time got a good one extratorent
since shut down, i can't find any that is as good at all

movie4u

indoxxi.tv

from our neighbor. no lag.

Been bad lately anyways. Kept buffering unlike few years ago.

Reddit got thread

You may take down the domain site. But the database and the files are still intact. So it won't take any long time for it to resurrect with another new domain name.

thanq for sharing

1 down 10 rise.....fxxk that US shit piracy protection

Donlod tonku

Those movie supplier is stupid. 98million visitor per month is the income. Just charge US0.10 per movie will still make huge money per month.

they still need to pay the distributor their part of the royalty.
then need to pay the studios.
not an easy thing

hahha popcorn movie mana ?

hypptv kan ada

since long ago also not using this

“Right now, the most popular illegal site in the world, 123movies.to (at this point), is operated from Vietnam, and has 98 million visitors a month,” MPAA’s Executive Vice President & Chief of Global Content Protection, Jan van Voorn said.

wow.. 98 million visitors a month..
just think about that ad revenue..

inb4 Ada Demand, Ada Supply...

i miss kickass

Old as in few years back. I also understand they can't show movies in theaters at the same time. I don't mind to wait 4-5 month to get it but they don't... The movies they have is like edge of tommorow and Pacific rim 1 which I already saw and not hyped to see it anymore.

How come the one in the movie/drama industry still have lavish lifestyle despite so many pirate out there

Problem is legal streaming site dont even update latest movie even the digital copy of the movie is officially available... so apa macam... lol... like netflix, so many movies not appear... how leh...

Then how about pay server cost? Bandwidth? The staffers? The lawsuits? And you think visitors are gonna put up paying any fee to a pirate site that collects info of themselves? Think McFly, think!

This post has been edited by WhatMan: Mar 22 2018, 11:43 AM

if uable to use netflix US content there is alots of movies and drama..compared to asian version....


streaming site hardly to survive long. it will take down due to copyright issue and some lawsuit agains them.

Movie industry until today never learn from game developer..

for example is steam pricing ok wat.

game dev cost > movie dev cost

Game sell cheap, sometimes down to RM15 on 2 yrs old AAA game. After launch need to support and patch also

Game can download unlimited time after 1 time buy.
movie cannot, have to pay per view, so F expensive in the long run.

they dont learn = continue get pirate lah.

This post has been edited by Boldnut: Mar 22 2018, 12:07 PM

i miss mininova,h33t...

Didn't even know this illegal streaming site exists until this closure notice.

this one too many fake, copycat

update mau wang la

kena beli rights mah

Not sure if streaming site or endless popup ads site

If gaji and standard of living like 1st world, I don't mind paying too

bcos people still go to watch movies in cinemas. just look at the top grossing film which is always over 1 billions usd in revenue nowadays. anyway, only those top dogs can have lavish lifestyle, most in the middle or at the bottom of the industry live like us only. as in all things in life.

and many pirates actually won't even bother to watch the movies in cinemas even if no more torrent. they either won't even bother to watch, or watch cheaply via video rental/netflix after waiting awhile, or watch for free on tv broadcast.

first time dengar website nie

Thing is game is continuous play, movie watch one time only then delete

nyess movie still up

yesmovies to

also, alluc ee is deded
but pron tv still up, basically the same shit, still works like alluc

90% pipul using alluc redirected to pron tv anyway coz looking for jav

serieson9

zooqle

Aiyo
How ah
Cannot watch free movie liao

heave ho heave ho

You can't be serious m8

I'm watching annihilation from Netflix now....

Some of their in-house series and movies are good

Stealing people livelihood by watching pirated movie.

(Laughs in torrent)

Satu gugur, dua naik, daulat Hydra!

yup. i just use "ublock origin" extension / add-on to block those ads

respek

Was referring to iflix. Ya Netflix have their original shows but beside that their movie library for Malaysia is not that great too.

not bad, but still not as good
extratorrent is really good IMO

These guy already successful in this for many years. They not required to bear all those cost.