Vietnamese authorities have arrested seven people accused of operating HiAnime, one of the world’s largest anime piracy websites, following a multi-year international investigation involving U.S. and Vietnamese law enforcement.
According to the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the arrests followed a multi-year investigation involving Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of Justice. The suspects are accused of copyright infringement through the copying and online distribution of films and television shows.
HiAnime was widely regarded as the world’s largest anime piracy website before it suddenly shut down in March 2026. Formerly known as Zoro.to and later AniWatch, the site attracted hundreds of millions of monthly visits at its peak—at one point drawing more traffic than legal streaming services such as Disney+ in several markets.
According to investigators, the seven suspects allegedly operated not only HiAnime but more than 100 piracy websites, distributing an estimated 26,000 movies and television series without authorization. Vietnamese authorities say the operation generated substantial advertising revenue while infringing the copyrights of entertainment companies worldwide.
ACE praised the arrests, stating:
“Actions such as this demonstrate our determination to pursue all avenues to disrupt and dismantle illegal streaming networks, reinforcing the protection of the creative community worldwide.”
The arrests mark one of the most significant anti-anime piracy enforcement actions in recent years. While HiAnime’s shutdown in March removed one of the internet’s largest illegal anime streaming platforms, authorities say this latest operation targets the people believed to have been responsible for running it.
Meanwhile, child P, Musulim Rapi**, criminals of all kinds…. Free on the streets… Where the victim is bleeding on the ground while police gives the killer food and coffee…
The world is going to hell so F fast that Satan is proud
Yep, anything that impacts the global healthcare scammers who are pill-pushing and surgery-suggesting, or the entertainment industry, is 100000000000000000x more important to governments than brown invaders r4p1ng and killing their native populations.
Absolute clown world s♥♥t seeing piracy and a more pressing issue than grooming gangs an illegals in general.
What government, what invaders? 0.08% of Viernamiese population are immigrants. Fucking bot doesn’t even make any sense, just vomiting the usual 3 goalposts.
And if we are talking about r♥♥e gangs in first world, US don’t even have any, aside from the government who visited Epstein’s island.
Priorities man, priorities… hate this world.
God save the que – er – king, limey.
SHUT UP GOYIM!! DO NOT CRITICIZE HOW WE RUN THINGS AND ALLOW THE BLACKS AND MUSLIMS TO TO WHAT THEY WANT!!!
Invading, woke, rainbow hair colored, Commie tranny showing his true colors.
Here we can see him being against normal porn that normal, straight men enjoy. Shoujo Ramune (child porn), Kuroinu (Non-human r4ping a child).
“Ramune cp”
STFU NIGGA!
All 3 of them are elementary school-aged children. Genre: hentai. Yes, it’s child porn, tranny.
Why is the US involved in this?
This is another attempt to neuter anime.
Once the pirate sites are gone nothing will stop the gaijins from censoring anime. Even the japs are self censoring themselves…….
There will ALWAYS be another HiAnime. When a piracy site like HiAnime goes down, there will ALWAYS be 2 more to to take its place like a hydra.
So either give the people what they want, or piracy will ALWAYS continue no matter how many websites get taken down and pirates getting arrested.
Doesn’t “Distribution” mean “selling”? The site was free to use.
Those are two different words, brown, ESL retard.