LiveNetTV, an ad-supported piracy app that offered hundreds of television channels from dozens of countries, has shut down after ten years, following a police operation in Istanbul and a settlement with the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment.
At the peak of its popularity, the app's website drew 2.4 million visits a year.
It had been running since 2016 and was free at the point of use, carrying advertising rather than charging subscriptions, which is the model most of the large streaming apps of the last decade have used.
The action began in February 2026, when local police in Istanbul carried out a search and seizure accompanied by a court-appointed expert, after a criminal complaint filed by Motion Picture Association member companies at the Istanbul prosecutor's office. The streams stopped.
The operators, identified publicly only by their initials, signed with ACE in late June, four months after the raid. ACE could not confirm whether the settlement involved any payment.
Since then the addresses have moved. Ten domains were transferred to the Motion Picture Association between 29 June and 8 September 2026: livenettv.net, .info, .pro, .cc, .co, .org, .me, .us, .tv and .xyz.
The handover was not a single event. The first domains moved on 29 June, the day the settlement was signed, and the last of the ten on 8 September, a little over ten weeks later.
ACE is the anti-piracy coalition operated by the Motion Picture Association. Handing over domains is a standard term in its settlements, and takes the addresses permanently out of an operator's control.
The enforcement is settled and the shutdown is real. What remains is a question of inventory. LiveNetTV existed under ten domain names. It now exists under none of them, and all ten belong to the Motion Picture Association.
The association is therefore the largest single holder of LiveNetTV in the world, by a margin of ten to nothing. Whatever the app was, its entire addressable extent now sits inside the organisation that closed it.
Our analysts draw particular attention to the .tv. A body representing the major studios has acquired livenettv.tv and has announced no plans for it. The Department of Unnecessary Research regards this as the cleanest available definition of victory: you do not take the thing off the internet, you take delivery of it.
Ten years of unlicensed television have ended in a transfer of ownership. On paper, the app did not close. It changed hands.