The Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, identified Movie2k, a streaming-movie portal that recently and unexpectedly disappeared from the Internet, as an “online notorious market” nearly ...

Law enforcement authorities in Saxony, eastern Germany, have taken possession of 50,000 bitcoins from the former operator of the infamous pirate site Movie2k.to. The voluntary deposit into a ...

The German government may have failed to recover at least 45,000 Bitcoin during its crackdown on movie piracy platform Movie2k, according to new data uncovered by crypto intelligence platform Arkham.

Arkham Intelligence has reported that piracy website Movie2K still holds 45,000 BTC, which the German government “failed to seize” as part of a confiscation of nearly 50,000 BTC in early 2024. In a ...

The German Government did not confiscate all BTC from the Movie2K piracy site. Old wallets with 45,000 BTC have been discovered, showing addresses that the German government did not manage to seize.

The police in Saxony, eastern Germany, have seized 50,000 Bitcoin from the former operator of the pirate site movie2k.to through a voluntary deposit to a state-controlled wallet. This is a record ...

The Motion Picture Association of American, or MPAA, scored a big victory last week after six of the UK’s top Internet Service Providers blocked access to the streaming-movie portal Movie2k. The MPAA ...

The German authorities are apparently currently moving tens of millions of euros worth of bitcoins back and forth, in some cases to the wallets of trading exchanges Bitstamp, Coinbase and Kraken. The ...

German authorities have seized €25 million ($29.6 million) in bitcoin and bitcoin cash from the alleged programmer behind movie2k.to, a massive online pirated film library that once drew the ire of ...

One of the main operators of the now-shuttered streaming site movie2k.to has forfeited over $30 million worth of crypto to German police. After a lengthy joint investigation with the American FBI, ...

German authorities may have missed seizing as much as $5 billion in Bitcoin tied to a piracy site it investigated last year, according to Arkham. German authorities may have missed around 45,000 ...

Criminal proceedings are now underway in Leipzig against another suspected primary operator and an employee of the illegal streaming portal movie2K, which was available online until the end of May ...