In March 2018, the MPAA said that the site was the 'most popular illegal download site in the world', and was operated from Vietnam and estimated that it had 98 million visitors per month. In October 2017, the MPAA listed 123Movies (and GoStream.is) in its Online Notorious Markets overview to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, stating that while the site was technically hosted from the Ukraine that: 'The site takes numerous steps to hide the identity of theoperator, including using Cloudflare, but there is strong reason to believe the operator is still in Vietnam content is uploaded using cyberlockers from numerous email accounts originating from Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy'. ambassador to Vietnam, Ted Osius, had been in talks with the local Minister of Information and Communications, Truong Minh Tuan, about shutting down illegal video streaming sites operating from Vietnam, and listed 123movies as one specific site. In March 2017, TorrentFreak reported that the U.S. In December 2017, the creators of 123movies launched another streaming site dedicated to anime, named AnimeHub.to. During its existence, the site was covered by TorrentFreak regarding its features, uptime/downtime, shutdown, and reasons for shutdown. The site also contained banner and pop-up ads that sometimes redirected to malware, although less in quantity than many other streaming sites like FMovies. The video hosters and players it used included Openload, Streamango, and M圜loud. ġ23Movies included HD, HD-RIP, Blu-ray and camera qualities of films. In October 2016, Business Insider reported that 123movies.to was the 'most-used pirate website' in the United Kingdom. 123movies.to had 9.26 million worldwide unique visitors in August 2016 according to SimilarWeb data'.
In October 2016, the MPAA listed 123Movies in its Online Notorious Markets overview to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), stating that: 'The site has a global Alexa rank of 559 and a local rank of 386 in the U.S. It was changed to gostream.is before being moved briefly to memovies.to before changing to 123movieshub.to/is and remaining there until shutdown. The original name, and URL, was 123movies.to, which changed to other domains including 123movies.is before redirecting to gomovies.to and later gomovies.is. *Easy Pay financing option is available at Horizon’s sole discretion and terms are subject to change.The site went through several name changes after being shut down from different domains sometimes the name appeared as '123Movies', and other times as '123movies'. *View and manage your Easy Pay payment methods, schedule and view available credit limit within the “Easy Pay” section of My Account. Payments will be split equally as credit limit allows, and scheduled payment values will be limited by available remaining credit limit.3rd payment = Scheduled 60 days after initial purchase.
2nd payment = Scheduled 30 days after initial purchase.1st payment = Time of purchase (includes tax, shipping, and ineligible items).For order values >$300, payments will be split into three payments. For order values $100.00-$299.99, Payments will be split into two payments.
Additional payments are then billed to the credit card every 30 days after the first payment, until all payments have been made. The first payment is charged to your credit card when your order is invoiced. Easy Pay payments will be split in either two, or three payments.