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Free streaming sites come and go. Some are shut down by the police, some close without saying why, and the copies that replace them change domains every few weeks. Here is what happened to the big ones, what is going on with the ones still running, and why Rotten Brains is a good place to land.
Movies and TV
- FMovies alternativeShut down August 2024FMovies was shut down by police in Vietnam in August 2024. The sites using its name today are copies.
- 123Movies alternativeOriginal closed March 2018The original 123Movies closed in March 2018. Everything using the name since then is a copy.
- Soap2day alternativeClosed June 2023Soap2day closed itself in June 2023 with a one-line goodbye. The Soap2day sites around now are copies.
- MyFlixer alternativeTaken down with FMovies, August 2024MyFlixer was part of the FMovies network and went down with it in August 2024. Current MyFlixer sites are copies.
- SFlix alternativeUp and down, many copiesSFlix is still around in some form, but it has been hard to reach and there are several look-alike sites using its name.
- Putlocker alternativeOriginal offline since 2016The original Putlocker went offline in 2016. Every Putlocker site since then is a copy with no link to it.
- GoMovies alternativeClosed March 2018GoMovies was the name 123Movies took in 2017, and the operation shut down in March 2018. The GoMovies sites around now are clones.
- PrimeWire alternativeOrdered shut in 2022, name still in useA US court ordered PrimeWire shut down in 2022, yet sites under the name are still listed today. Nobody can say which of them, if any, the original operators run.
- SolarMovie alternativeGone since July 2016The original SolarMovie vanished in July 2016, hours after KickassTorrents was shut down. Later sites reuse the name.
- HuraWatch alternativeMain domains dead, copies onlyNobody announced a HuraWatch shutdown. Its best-known domains just stopped working, and none of the HuraWatch sites left can be shown to be the original.
- Vumoo alternativeTaken offline March 2024Vumoo was taken offline by its operator in March 2024 after action by ACE, which still controls the domain. Other Vumoo sites are copies.
- LookMovie alternativeRunning on lookmovie2.toLookMovie still runs, on lookmovie2.to since its old .io domain was suspended in March 2022. Many look-alike domains use its name.
- WatchSeries alternativeName in use, many operatorsWatchSeries has never been one site. A site under the name runs today, but nobody can tie it to the WatchSeries people remember.
- Cinejoy alternativeRunning; moved to cinejoy.pk, September 2026Cinejoy is still running. It appeared in July 2026 at cinejoy.to and moved to cinejoy.pk less than two months later.
- Rive alternativeRunning; main domain changed many timesRive, also called Rivestream, is still running. It has changed its main address many times since 2024 and keeps a status page so people can find the current one.
- PopcornMovies alternativeRunning; on its fourth domain since 2024PopcornMovies is still running, now at popcornmovies.ac. It has moved domains three times in two years.
- Flixer alternativeTop FMHY pick; unreachable for us on 23 September 2026Flixer is still listed as a top pick, but its main address has changed four times since mid-2025 and it did not load for us on 23 September 2026.
- 67Movies alternativeRunning; third main domain of 202667Movies is still running, now at 67movies.st. It is on its third main address this year, and plenty of look-alike 67movies domains show up in search.
- ShuttleTV alternativeRunning on three domainsShuttleTV is still running on the three addresses FMHY lists. A look-alike site claims it has moved, but its original address worked when we checked.
- Movy alternativeRunning; moved to movy.sx, September 2026Movy is still running, now at movy.sx. It appeared in August 2026 at movy.bz and changed domain about three weeks after FMHY listed it.
- bCine alternativeRunning; moved to bcine.ru, May 2026bCine is still running, now at bcine.ru. The old bcine.app address no longer answers.
- 7Movies alternativeRunning; moved to 7movies.ac, September 20267Movies is still running, now at 7movies.ac. It is two months old and has already swapped its address for a new one.
- Hexa alternativeListed; unreachable for us on 23 September 2026Hexa, once Hexa Watch at hexa.watch, now lives at hexa.su. It is still listed by FMHY, but it did not load for us on 23 September 2026.
- ArrowTV alternativeRunning, with several sister namesArrowTV is still running at arrowtv.net, alongside a mirror, NeonFlix, and a sister site, Cinezo. The names and domains in that family are easy to mix up.
- SpenFlix alternativeMain site running; old mirrors downSpenFlix is still running at watch.spencerdevs.xyz. Several of its old mirrors and sister sites, including spenflix.ru, are marked down on its own status page.
- MeowTV alternativeRunning; FlickyStream now goes by MeowTVMeowTV is the name the FlickyStream site now leads with. It is still running, at meowtv.ru and flickystream.mov, after moving domains again and again since 2024.
- Reelix alternativeRunning; Coreflix renamed Reelix, August 2026Coreflix is now listed as Reelix. Both reelix.ac and coreflix.tv still run, and since 28 August 2026 FMHY has put Reelix first.
- Way2Movies alternativeListed by FMHY at way2movies.liveFMHY lists Way2Movies at beta.way2movies.live and way2movies.live. The name is also used by many look-alike domains that FMHY does not list.
- Streamo alternativeRunning; access rules have changed since launchStreamo is still running at streamo.pro. It launched in 2026 behind an invite code, and for a few days in August FMHY marked it as needing a sign-up.
- HydraHD alternativeRunning; moved to hydrahd.ws, August 2026HydraHD is still running, now at hydrahd.ws with hydrahd.com as its backup. It has changed its main domain at least eight times since 2024.
- Cinecat alternativeRunning; renamed from Z-Stream, September 2026Cinecat is the site many people still know as Z-Stream, or before that as XP-Stream and P-Stream (Fork). It is running at cinecat.eu, and zstream.mov now redirects there.
- 1Shows alternativeRunning; moved to 1shows.bz, September 20261Shows is still running. On 23 September 2026 it moved again, from 1shows.org to 1shows.bz, and its family of sister sites (1Flex, 1Tube, the old RgShows) makes the right address hard to keep track of.
- Primeshows alternativeRunning; moved to primeshows.org, July 2026Primeshows is still running, now at primeshows.org. Its two earlier addresses, primeshows.live and primeshows.uk, no longer serve the site.
- PressPlay alternativeRunning as PressPlayZ at pressplayz.toPressPlay is still running, rebranded as PressPlayZ at pressplayz.to. Its old pressplay.top and pressplay.cam addresses redirect there.
- Aether alternativeRunning; main domain aether.ist since August 2026Aether is still running, with aether.ist as its main address and aether.cx and aether.st as mirrors. The aether.mom address it started on no longer loads.
- ZetMoon alternativeRunning at zetmoon.liveZetMoon is a young site that is still running at zetmoon.live, the only domain FMHY has listed for it.
- EE3 alternativeRunning; invite-only, movies onlyEE3 is still running at ee3.me, also reachable as RIPS at rips.cc. It shows nothing until you sign up with an invite code, and it has films only.
Anime
- HiAnime alternativeClosed March 2026HiAnime went offline on 13 March 2026 and its team later confirmed it is not coming back. In July 2026 police in Vietnam announced the arrest of seven people alleged to run it.
- 9anime alternativeRenamed 2023, shut down August 20249anime became AniWave in August 2023, and a year later it was taken down along with the rest of the FMovies group. Sites calling themselves 9anime today are copies.
- AniWave alternativeShut down August 2024AniWave, the name 9anime took in 2023, closed at the end of August 2024 with a farewell page. The site it pointed its users to, HiAnime, has since closed too.
- Gogoanime alternativeStopped updating November 2024Gogoanime, renamed Anitaku in 2024, stopped adding episodes in late November 2024 and its operators went quiet. The many Gogoanime domains around now are of unknown origin.
- KissAnime alternativeClosed August 2020KissAnime closed for good in August 2020, together with KissManga. Its own moderators warned that other sites using the name were most likely phishing.
- AnimixPlay alternativeClosed December 2022AnimixPlay shut itself down in December 2022 after its scraper broke. Its old domain still says it will never return and warns about copycats.
- Miruro alternativeRunning; named in an August 2026 subpoenaMiruro is still running on several mirror domains. In August 2026 four of them were named in a DMCA subpoena the MPA sent to Cloudflare on behalf of ACE.
- animepahe alternativeRunning at animepahe.pw, behind a browser checkanimepahe still runs, now at animepahe.pw. It has changed domains three times since September 2025, and in July 2026 a Belgian court order put its domains on that country's block list.
- KickAssAnime alternativeRunning at kaa.lt; many domain changesKickAssAnime, or KAA, is still running, now at kaa.lt. It has moved its main domain several times, and its own channel warns about fake copies.
- Anikoto alternativeRunning, with sister site AnimeSugeAnikoto is still running at anikototv.to, next to its sister site AnimeSuge (Anisuge). Both keep official domain lists because their addresses get taken down, blocked or copied.
- Re:ANIME alternativeRunning; replaced Kuudere in May 2026Re:ANIME is the site that took Kuudere's place in May 2026. It runs at reanime.to, and it says plainly that it is not the original Kuudere.
- MKissa alternativeRunning; renamed from AllManga in 2026MKissa is the newest name for the site long known as AllAnime and then AllManga. It runs at mkissa.to, and allmanga.to still works beside it.
- Anidap alternativeRunning; moved to anidap.lol, July 2026Anidap is still running, but no longer at anidap.se. FMHY switched its link to anidap.lol on 14 July 2026, and most visitors have followed.
- Anistream alternativeRunning at anistream.one; new in 2026Anistream is a small anime site that reached FMHY in May 2026. It runs at anistream.one, and other sites use the same name on different domains.
Asian drama
- Dramacool alternativeClosed November 2024Dramacool and its four sister sites closed on 27 November 2024, with the operators saying they could not run them anymore because of copyright. Any Dramacool domain today is not the original.
- KissAsian alternativeOriginal domains parkedThe domains the original KissAsian used are now parked for sale. The KissAsian sites you find today have no proven link to it.
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What you get on Rotten Brains
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The player finds a working source by itself
Every title is checked against several sources before you press play, and the player starts on the one that answers first.
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Every season and episode, with Up Next
Shows open on a watch page with every season beside the player. The episode you are on is marked, and Up Next sits right above the list, so finishing an episode is one tap from the next.
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Subtitles in dozens of languages
Subtitles come from more than one source, so most titles have several versions per language. If the first one is out of sync with the video, the next one usually is not.
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Watch parties with friends anywhere
Start a party from any movie or episode and send the link. Everyone who opens it watches the same second of the same video, with a chat alongside, and the player keeps them in sync.
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Pick up where you left off
With a free account, every movie and episode remembers the second you stopped, on every device. Continue Watching sits at the top of the home page, next to what is new in the shows you follow.
