On May 15, Hollywood anti-piracy group ACE (Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment) filed a fresh batch of DMCA subpoenas with a U.S. federal court, demanding that Cloudflare hand over account details tied to 29 piracy-related domains. This includes physical addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and payment records. The subpoenas were submitted on behalf of the Motion Picture Association (MPA), with Columbia, Disney, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. listed as rights holders. Notably, the list features several cross-border targets, including three particularly unusual ones: First up is La Cale (la-cale.space), a private French BitTorrent tracker that rapidly gained popularity after YggTorrent collapsed in December 2025; it operates as an invitation-only community, and internal resource links included in the subpoena documents suggest ACE has already infiltrated it. Second is “BT Home / 1 Lou” (1lou.me), a well-established Chinese BitTorrent forum running for roughly two decades; despite ACE having no members in China, it still made the list despite attracting millions of monthly visitors. Lastly, there’s a cluster of Vietnamese piracy API services — kkphim.com, ophim17.cc, and phim.nguonc.com — which provide third parties with movie metadata, cover art, and m3u8 streaming links via a “Piracy-as-a-Service” (PaaS) model.
Other domains on the list include Russia’s Kino.pub streaming platform, multiple sites under India’s multi-domain aggregator Movierulz, Thailand’s NanaMovies, Poland’s wizja.cc, various Brazilian streaming platforms, and Spain’s long-running Spanish-language site series.ly, which has twice been acquitted of all charges. The subpoenas still await signature from a court clerk — a largely procedural step — after which Cloudflare will be required to comply and submit the requested data. ACE acknowledges that piracy operators routinely submit false information to infrastructure providers, meaning the value of data obtained via these subpoenas varies widely; however, even minor leads can prove useful when combined with intelligence from other sources.