Are you looking for MintMovies? We’ve got some bad news for you!
Read on to find out what happened to this popular free movie and TV show streaming website.
What was MintMovies?
MintMovies was, for a long time, a popular online illegal streaming website where users could watch countless movies and TV shows for free, bar the selling of ad space. But like all good things, they have to come to an end.
The MintMovies website has now been taken down after receiving pressure from the local law enforcement due to copyright infringements. Of course, plenty of new sites have already risen to replace them, but for now, the art of illegally watching film and television has been made a little more difficult for casual lawbreakers.
What Happened to MintMovies?
On March 30th, 2018 MintMovies.to, also called MintMovieshub or GoMovies or any number of other names, put up a notice of shut down on their site. The messaged stated that the site will go down in one week. The message did tell their visitors to support filmmakers by paying for content, which is a strange thing for an illegal streaming site to say.
Millions of people visited the site monthly, and it was actually one of the top 30,000 most visited website in the world.
There was no official word on the reason for the closure of MintMovies, but considering the growing pressure being placed on the small free movie and TV streaming websites, it was probably the result of a crackdown.
Of course, regardless of the legality of streaming sites like this, the internet is vast and unconquerable. There are already many alternatives to MintMovies, and a quick google search still tends to bring up whatever you want to watch.
Even so, it is disheartening to see another streaming site come and go. However, it certainly just part of the nature of these kinds of free streaming sites.