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ACE Subpoena Targets French Private Tracker, Chinese Pirate Forum, and Vietnamese APIs
### Hollywood’s Global Dragnet
If you thought copyright enforcement was just about sending “cease and desist” emails to random bloggers, think again. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE)—the heavy-hitting anti-piracy coalition backed by giants like Disney and Warner Bros.—is officially playing a high-stakes game of digital manhunt.
In a massive new move, ACE has filed a DMCA subpoena against Cloudflare, targeting 29 different domains across the globe. We aren’t just talking about one rogue website; this is a worldwide dragnet hitting:
The Newcomers: A fresh, invitation-only French torrent tracker (la-cale.space*) that’s been gaining steam since late 2023.
The Legends: The veteran Chinese forum 1lou.me*, which has been hopping domains for two decades and boasts millions of visitors.
- “Piracy as a Service”: Vietnamese APIs designed to help others launch pirate sites with ease.
ACE is fishing for everything from IP addresses and physical locations to payment histories. While many site operators use fake data to stay anonymous, these subpoenas are powerful tools for building a paper trail. Whether this leads to actual arrests or just more domain hopping remains to be seen, but Hollywood is clearly not letting anyone off the hook—no matter what language they speak.