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The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment has confirmed that it was behind the recent demise of AtomoHD, a site that used to enjoy around 10 million page views every month. ACE notes that the site offered around 13,000 movies and 4,500 TV series, but after implementing dozens of domains in an attempt to stay visible, 'Atom' seems to have split for the last time.
Just three months ago, users of Spanish pirate sites were still accepting bad news.
Private Pixelados/HD-Spain torrent sites were fan favorites in Spain, with localized HD movies and TV shows galore. Then all of a sudden they were gone.
It was later revealed that pressure applied by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, including a credible threat of legal action, persuaded the site's operator to throw in the towel. It's a story that has been repeated many times in recent years and has led to the closure of hundreds of sites.
ACE revealed another blow for the Spanish pirates today.
AtomoHD splits under pressure from ACE
AtomoHD (Atom HD in English) appeared as a newcomer in 2020, but in less than three years, ACE says the platform received 235 million visits, with an average of 9.7 million visits per month. Less than 10% of the site's visitors were from outside of Spain, so its recent demise will be felt most acutely in the local market. The site's operators reportedly live elsewhere.
โAtomoHD was launched in 2020 by a group of people, some of whom had previous convictions in Spain for intellectual property infringement and to evade justice, they fled to Andorraโ, reports ACE.
โAtomoHD allowed users to illegally stream and download content from a VOD library of more than 13,000 movies and 4,500 TV series in Spanish and other languages. Pirated content affects all ACE members.โ
Precise closing terms unclear
For ACE's board members, currently Amazon, Apple TV+, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Sony, Paramount, Disney and Warner Bros., the closure of AtomoHD represents another success, shared with the more than 50 companies that make up the general membership of ACE. the coalition. .
โThis takedown represents another major victory for ACE over the distributors of illegal content,โ says Jan van Voorn, executive vice president and head of global content protection for the Motion Picture Association and director of ACE. โIt is becoming increasingly clear that major criminal operators like AtomoHD are not immune from ACE enforcement actions.โ
The precise terms of the AtomoHD shutdown are unknown, but domain transfers are definitely involved. ACE says that the platform has around 60 domains and as far as we know the following domains already have new owners:
atomohd.nl, atomohd.care, atomixhq.xyz, atomixhq.club, atomohd.vip, atomohd.win, atomohd.vet, atomohd.yt, atomohd.ninja, atomohd.surf, atomohd.fans, atomohd.live, atomtt. com, atomohd.tw
Visitors to the AtomoHD Telegram channel are greeted by a long list of alternative or replacement AtomoHD domains, with new ones being published on an irregular weekly or bi-weekly basis. He final announcement took place on April 28, with no new domains announced since then, at least on Telegram.
