The Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) said it issued two requests to disable access to six domains and subdomains involved in movie piracy during the celebration of National Anti-Piracy Month this October.
“As an ex-officio member of the Philippine Creative Industries Development Council, IPOPHL is one with the nation in fighting bad actors that derail efforts in cultivating a safe creative environment for artists—an environment where our imaginations can push boundaries and where investments towards creative expressions grow and lead to new works that keep the Philippine’s creative momentum upward and moving,” said IPOPHL deputy director-general Nathaniel Arevalo.
The requests covered popular domains like SFlix (sflix.to, sflix.se, sflix.is) and MyFlixer (myflixerz.to, myflixertv.to, myflixer.today). These websites were flagged by the Motion Pictures Association (MPA) for hosting unauthorized copies of movies like “Shazam!”, “Day Shift”, “Jumanji: The Next Level” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”
According to the MPA’s complaints, “these websites have neither authority nor permission, from the rightsholders, expressed or implied, to make available, publish, copy, print, reproduce, use, or make available for download or for streaming in any manner of any of the Rightsholders’ copyrighted works.”
