In March 2018, the MPAA said that the site was the "most popular illegal site in the world", stated it was operated from Vietnam and estimated that it received 98 million visitors per month.
On 19 March 2018, a note on the site's home page announced its shutdown, and urged users to "respect filmmakers by paying for movies and TV-shows". In October 2018, the MPAA's update on Online Notorious Markets to the United States Trade Representative, said that the closure of 123movies, 123movieshub, gostream, and gomovies, on foot of a criminal investigation in Vietnam in 2018, was "an important development" in combatting illegal film piracy services. However, the MPAA report also noted that numerous copycat sites had emerged in at least eight other countries. ^ a b c Charles Rivkin (CEO MPAA) (2 October 2017).Popcorn Time, a freeware program allowing users to watch movies through torrenting on several platforms.YIFY Torrents (or YTS), online movie file downloading network.Putlocker, similar online movie streaming network.List of websites blocked in the United Kingdom.In November 2018 TorrentFreak reported sites connected or similar to 123Movies such as WatchAsap had also been shut down by the FBI, but were re-directing to other file sharing sites. "Letter to Christine Peterson, Director for Intellectual Property and Innovation" (PDF). Saw 7 full movie 123 series#ġ23movies, now redirects to Gostream.is, the latest iteration of which is a very popular streaming website that embeds popular movie and series content from third-party cyberlockers. The site has undergone changes in 2016-2017, rebranding as gomovies in March 2017, and then the domain name registered as gostream in July 2017 it is believed this is due in part to highprofile pressure. Gostream currently has a global Alexa rank of 477 and a local rank of 170 in the U.S.
^ a b c Charles Rivkin (CEO MPAA) (1 October 2018).Gostream (and its associated domains) garnered 18.45 million unique visitors in July 2017 according to SimilarWeb data.
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