123Movieshub or Gomovies has millions of visitors per day and known to be based in Vietnam. But they posted a Goodbye notice on their classic website and told that the site will shutdown after 25th March. The operators of the site posted the following message on their site
123Movies shutdown notice
Not only that, they are actually encouraging users to pay up the film/tv makers by buying the Movies or TV shows.
123Movieshub is shutting down along with GoMovies and Bmovies
The announcement came after MPAA recently called 123MoviesHub as one of the most popular illegal streaming site of the world. Running for more than 3 years under the radar this recognition forced the pirates to stir the wheel towards the port and stop their operation.
MPAA’s Executive Vice President & Chief of Global Content Protection, Jan van Voorn told Techspree Before that the US Ambassador to Vietnam pressured the Govt. to help them shut down the site and the office of the US trade representative called 123movieshub as “Notorious Market”. These are just few of the catalyst to the destruction of this famous sites. Over the course of the three years, it has changed it’s name/domain several times but still under the watchlist of the copyright trolls. It’s too early to speculate why they are shutting down their operation given that the ads serving on their sites giving the operators thousands to millions of USD earning every month. What do you think about this shutdown? Use the comment section to let us know.