ACE Shutters Notorious Piracy Operations in India

MKVCinemas and Illicit Cloning Tool Accounted for More Than 373 Million Global Visits Between 2024 and 2025

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world's leading antipiracy coalition, has dismantled India-based piracy network MKVCinemas and its associated domains. Additionally, ACE shut down a high-traffic drive-to-drive cloning tool frequently used by piracy services in India and Indonesia.

Most of MKVCinemas' traffic came from India, a rapidly expanding entertainment market.

Collectively, the MKVCinemas domains accounted for 142.4 million global visits between 2024 and 2025. The piracy tool received 231.4 million visits in the same time period.  

Following an extensive investigation, ACE identified the operator in Bihar, India, who agreed to shut down the operation and transfer 25 associated domains. 

The shuttered drive-to-drive cloning tool was relied on by major piracy services in the region. Cloning tools copy files directly from a concealed cloud repository into a user's own cloud drive, allowing pirates to keep the source concealed to evade effective takedown processes.

"Piracy isn't a harmless shortcut as it exposes consumers to real risks and drains resources from India's creative economy," said Larissa Knapp, Executive Vice President, and Chief Content Protection Officer at the Motion Picture Association. "Our actions make clear that ACE will relentlessly pursue and dismantle illegal operations so audiences and creators can benefit from a secure, sustainable marketplace."

The MKVCinemas domains are being redirected to ACE's "Watch Legally" page.

About The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment

The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) is the world's leading coalition dedicated to protecting the legal creative 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 unauthorized content sources and their operators. Drawing upon the collective expertise and resources of more than 50 media and entertainment companies around the world—including sports channels and associations—and reinforced by the Motion Picture Association's content protection operations, ACE protects the creativity and innovation that drives the global growth of core copyright and entertainment industries. The current governing board members for ACE are Amazon, Apple TV, Netflix, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Studios, The Walt Disney Studios, and Warner Bros. Discovery. Charles Rivkin is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association and Chairman of ACE.

source: Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE)