Exactly when Vietnam-based notable privateer film streaming site 123moviesfree, also called GoMovies, suddenly proclaimed last month that they were shutting down and urged its customers to start paying for content–there was both assistance and some head-scratching regarding the substance business.
The theft site has for a long while been a thorn in the side of content owners. It was referred to by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) in its 2018 convenience to the US Government as a part of the US Trade Representative’s (USTR) yearly Special 301 country study process and remembered for USTR’s most recent Notorious (Pirate) Markets report.
Many have speculated as to the reason Vietnam acted now,
One of the theories is that the country needs to show its secured development (IP) bona fides when it has been decided to fill in as Chair of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), General Assembly, for 2018-19, the underlying time in more than 10 years that an Asian country has been agreed with this commitment and honour.
That is possibly a factor anyway is likely not going to be the key clarification. Emphatically, there was US strain to act, with the past US ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius, having been represented a year before have referenced that 123Movies, similarly as two other Vietnam-based robbery districts, Putlocker and KissCartoon, be prosecuted for copyright infringement.
The current emissary, Daniel Kritenbrink,
- Gave the basic assertions at a “Studio on Intellectual Property Enforcement in a Digital World” on March 12 in