MPA’s Response to USTR’s Request on the 2026 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets - 2026

Oct 28, 2026

Motion Picture Association (MPA) submits a public response to the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office (USTR) regarding the 2026 Special 301 out-of-cycle review of notorious markets outside the United States. The submission describes MPA’s role as a global advocate for motion picture, television, and streaming industries and outlines member involvement. It emphasizes MPA and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) approach to reducing digital piracy through enforcement, litigation, and takedowns. It summarizes recent actions against specific piracy services and developments in Vietnam and Korea.

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Introduction

MPA Fights Global Piracy with Trusted Partners

Encouraging Developments in the Ongoing Fight Against Global Piracy

Takedowns and enforcement actions against piracy services

Government enforcement developments in Vietnam

Arrests and actions in Korea

Removal of Dizigom in Türkiye

MPA’s Response to USTR’s Request on the 2026 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets 2026 | | | | | | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | | | | | | | |
Request for Public Comment on the 2026 Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets—Docket No. USTR-2026-0529

Dear Mr. Lee:

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) submits the following response to the request issued on August 26, 2026, by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) inviting submissions from the public on notorious markets outside of the United States.
Introduction
MPA serves as the global voice and advocate of the motion picture, television, and streaming industries. We work in every corner of the globe to advance the creative industry, protect its members’ content across all screens, defend the creative and artistic freedoms of storytellers, and support innovative distribution models that bring an expansion of viewing choices to audiences around the world. MPA’s members for this response are: Amazon Studios LLC; Netflix Studios, LLC; Paramount Pictures Corporation; Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. ; Universal City Studios LLC; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; and Warner Bros.
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MPA Fights Global Piracy with Trusted Partners
MPA leads the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE),1 the world’s leading coalition dedicated to protecting the dynamic legal 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 other sources of unauthorized content and their operators. Drawing upon the collective expertise and resources of more than 50 media and entertainment companies around the world and reinforced by the content protection operations of the MPA, ACE protects the creativity and innovation that drive the global growth of core copyright and entertainment industries.

Encouraging Developments in the Ongoing Fight Against Global Piracy
We applaud USTR for welcoming comments this year regarding high-quality counterfeit trademark goods referred to as “superfakes” or “superclones.”

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1 | | | | | While the focusof our submission is on piracy in globalonline marketplaces, we appreciate USTR’s efforts to shine the spotlight on notorious markets across the intellectual property ecosystem. Physical notorious markets—and in some cases content distributors with physical distribution infrastructure—remain a persistent threat in many territories around the world. Online marketplaces that traffic in stolen content, however, are frequently extraterritorial in reach and have the most significant impact on the global legitimate market for U. S. movies and television programming and are a direct threat to our members’ online businesses. Moreover, they are the focus of MPA and ACE’s global content protection efforts. We celebrate positive developments in our tireless fight against digital piracy that have occurred since our previous submission to USTR, including: The takedown of domains associated with chronic notorious hydra piracy service Cineby.2 Following an extensive investigation and multi-region enforcement effort, Cineby[.]at is now nonfunctional, Videasy—also included in the 2025 submission from the MPA—is offline, and Vidking, while still accessible, has no connected source servers and cannot stream content. The commitment shown by the Vietnamese Government to improve copyright enforcement and address major piracy services. This includes Dispatch No. 38 issued by Prime M

FAQs

What is the purpose of MPA’s response to USTR’s request for the 2026 Special 301 review?

MPA provides its public response to USTR’s request regarding the 2026 Special 301 out-of-cycle review of notorious markets outside the United States.

How does MPA describe its strategy to combat global piracy?

MPA highlights leadership of ACE and a comprehensive approach combining criminal referrals, civil litigation, and cease-and-desist operations to reduce digital piracy and protect legitimate markets.

Which piracy-related enforcement developments does MPA mention as occurring since its previous submission?

MPA cites takedowns or disruptions of services such as Cineby, Videasy, and Vidking; improvements in Vietnam’s enforcement including dismantling the HiAnime network; action against TVWiki in Korea; and the dismantling of Dizigom in Türkiye.

Oct 28, 2026

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