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Pirate Streaming Portal ‘P-Stream’ Shuts Down Following ACE/MPA Pressure
https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-streaming-portal-p-stream-shuts-down-following-ace-mpa-pressure/
P-Stream Bites the Dust—Again—Thanks to Hollywood’s Legal Hammer
Just months after its launch—and years in the making for pirate streaming sites—P-Stream has officially shut down. The move comes after a coordinated push by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creative Entertainment (ACE), who used DMCA subpoenas to pressure platforms like Discord and Cloudflare into handing over operator data linked to pirate domains, including pstream.mov.
The site’s operator, known only as “Pas,” confirmed the shutdown in a brief message: no court battle, no hosting, and no public instance—just a clean exit. Though P-Stream claimed it didn’t host content (only linking to external sources), the legal risk was too high. As Pas put it: “I can’t afford to fight that in court.”
Interestingly, the shutdown isn’t just about legal pressure—it’s also personal. Pas admitted the project was “life-consuming” and that stepping away might be a blessing in disguise.
But don’t expect this to be the end of the line. The open-source code lives on in public GitHub repos, and history shows copycats are already circling. Expect a new fork—maybe P-Stream 2.0 or something equally clever—to pop up soon… until Hollywood comes knocking once again. 🍿⚖️