Openload and Streamango Shut Down by Anti-Piracy Alliance ACE

[anakin206]

Openload, one of the largest file-hosting sites on the Internet, has agreed to shut down its service. Openload.co and several related domains, including Streamango, now show a banner confirming that they have been taken over by global anti-piracy coalition ACE. According to ACE, the operator further agreed to pay significant damages.

With millions of regular visitors, file-hosting site Openload generates more traffic than popular streaming services such as Hulu or HBO Go.

While the site has plenty of legal uses it is also a thorn in the side of many copyright holders, due to the frequent appearance of pirated content.

This pirate stigma most recently resulted in a mention on the US Government’s list of “Notorious Markets”. 

Today the site’s regular users are welcomed by a rather unpleasant surprise. Instead of the usual interface, allowing them to access the latest videos, they see a message from the global anti-piracy alliance ACE.

“The website is no longer available due to copyright infringement. You will be redirected to alliance4creativity.com,” it reads.

 

A closer look at the DNS information shows that the domain name now points to the ns3.films.org and ns4.films.org nameservers, which have been used in the past for similar seizures.

(This article has been amended after additional information came in)

Initially, ACE didn’t immediately reply to our request for comment but the coalition has now confirmed that it reached an agreement with the operator of the site. As a result, many related Openload domains such as oload.cc, oload.club and oload.download, openload.pw and oloadcdn.net are offline as well.

The same is true for Streamango.com, which is believed to be connected to Openload. Streamcherry.com also shows the same ACE copyright notice, although ACE has not confirmed that this domain is part of the deal.

According to ACE, the shutdown is a major win.

“Prior to this ACE action, Openload and Streamango were massive piracy outfits. Openload alone had more than 1,000 servers in Romania, France, and Germany, and generated more traffic than many leading sources of legal content,” ACE writes.

With millions of daily visitors, the redirects are causing trouble for the ACE website too, which is slowing down and returning errors regularly. This is no surprise, as Openload.co alone has an estimated 65 million visits per month, according to SimilarWeb.

This is a breaking story, we will update the article if and when new information becomes available.

 

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[zanderthunder]

9 hours ago, anakin206 said:

According to ACE, the shutdown is a major win.

A major win? Well, they should not be too overconfident on that.

Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place.

[debebee]

i know i lot of kodiplugins that used ol, so it is a big win

[zanderthunder]

36 minutes ago, bayer said:

i know i lot of kodiplugins that used ol, so it is a big win

i'm aware of some kodi plugins uses openload sources for movie, but there's a possibility that the developers of these plugins will update their releases to remove any sources of openload stuffs upon hearing this.

[debebee]

it kinda like when mega came down.. lots of sites who depend on it crashed out.. Not easy to reupload terabytes of data to another host

[debebee]

not that many hosts that offer free 1gb+  hosting.. 

 

back to resorting to premium hosters.. 

[zanderthunder]

1 hour ago, bayer said:

it kinda like when mega came down.. lots of sites who depend on it crashed out.. Not easy to reupload terabytes of data to another host

even others who resorted to mirrors or even multi-file hosting system, they find it tiring to reupload all over again.

[halvgris]

5 hours ago, Edward Raja said:

A major win? Well, they should not be too overconfident on that.

Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place.

agreed! with social media and users telling where to go.

 

i don't remember in which order but when mega disapeared we moved

on. when rapidshare stopped we moved on to the next.

 

openload was my favorite because it was also ipad friendly.

 

[debebee]

so what's the next best thing? 

[Iceman96]

3 hours ago, bayer said:

so what's the next best thing? 

 

Uptobox I guess

[steven36]

16 hours ago, halvgris said:

agreed! with social media and users telling where to go.

 

i don't remember in which order but when mega disapeared we moved

on. when rapidshare stopped we moved on to the next.

 

openload was my favorite because it was also ipad friendly.

Megauplod  was 1st 2012  RapidShare  didn't close tell years latter 2015 . They were others that closed down right after  MU  did  FileServe , FileSonic

Wupload,  then Firedrive (previously Putlocker)   out of all of them Putlocker that changed it to firedrive  witch owned Sockshare as well was the most like Openload and Streamango and they was replaced .

 

20 hours ago, bayer said:

i know i lot of kodiplugins that used ol, so it is a big win

Not really  because they stop paying uploaders so  most sites had removed  them already and they was a crap shoot on kodi anyway because you had to pair every 4 hours unless you paid for a download service and if you paid  torrents  and many filehosters that are not been  stepped on works for kodi so they sucked . Anything over 1 gb  Openload had to step on it to upload it  they converted down the bitrate to  x264 mp4.