LOS ANGELES – As part of its campaign to stop the illicit hosting of digital piracy content, the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world’s leading anti-piracy coalition, has shut down Streamzz, an illegal file hosting service with global reach.
Operated out of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Streamzz logged more than 7 million monthly visits. One-third of that traffic originated in Germany, followed by the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Hungary.
Operating since 2019, Streamzz hosted and streamed more than 75,000 movies and 15,000 TV series episodes, affecting all ACE members.
The service was used by more than 60 websites offering pirated content.
“The shutdown of Streamzz is fresh proof that no one in the content piracy ecosystem – whether they’re a streaming service, video streaming host or anything in between – is above the law,” said Jan van Voorn, Executive Vice President and Global Content Protection Chief of the Motion Picture Association and Head of ACE. “We will target piracy services of various kinds in order to protect the global creative economy.”
ACE worked with Constantin Film, a member of the coalition, on this action.
“Piracy continues to undermine the legal market and the investment into new and exciting content. This action is a massive success for rightsholders in Germany and across the world and we are proud to work with ACE to support their ongoing efforts to protect copyright and fight piracy,” said Philipp Wohlfrom, Executive Vice President of International Licensing and Head of Anti-Piracy at Constantin Film.
About The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world’s leading coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal market and reducing digital piracy. Driven by a comprehensive approach to addressing piracy through criminal referrals, civil litigation and cease-and-desist operations, ACE has achieved many successful global enforcement actions against illegal streaming services and sources of unauthorized content and their operators. Drawing upon the collective expertise and resources of more than 50 media and entertainment companies around the world and reinforced by the content protection operations of the Motion Picture Association, ACE protects the creativity and innovation that drive the global growth of core copyright and entertainment industries. The current governing board members for ACE are Amazon, Apple TV+, NBCUniversal, Netflix Studios LLC, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, and Warner Bros. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association and Chairman of ACE. For more information, please visit www.alliance4creativity.com.
ACE Media Contact
Pamela Corante
pamela_corante@motionpictures.org
