MKVCinemas streaming piracy service with 142M visits shuts down

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), backed by major studios and networks, dismantled the MKVCinemas piracy network and 25 related domains—redirecting them to ACE's "Watch Legally" portal—after identifying the operator in Bihar who agreed to cease operations; ACE also shut down a widely used file-cloning tool that enabled copying from hidden cloud repositories, and the report notes related multi-jurisdictional disrupts of other large piracy and IPTV services and cryptocurrency tracing tied to illegal streaming.