When mentioning the nickname “king of resilience”, it’s not hard for the Vietnamese online community to instantly recognize the “legend” of pirated films, which is the phimmoi website with an enormous following and reach. What’s noteworthy is that despite numerous investigations and crackdowns for copyright violations, phimmoi still survives with spectacular “molt” performances. Changing its domain name to phimmoiz, phimmoizz, and now phimmoizzz, the “king of resilience” continues to prove its tenacity and leaves the online community extremely exasperated.
However, after numerous transformations by adding a “z” to the end of the domain name, just recently, the online community witnessed phimmoi returning once again. Specifically, after changing its name to phimmoiplus but still unable to escape its fate, now, when searching for the keyword phimmoi on Google, we get over 15 million search results, and among them, according to many users, phimmoi has returned with a strange interface and a new domain, which is phimchill.
In reality, the numerous “transformations” of phimmoi have gradually lost the charm they had in the early days for the online community. Instead, many people have begun to express their annoyance at the endless antics of this pirated film website. Especially when copyright issues are increasingly seen as a problem in many fields at present.
However, it must be acknowledged that without the support of viewers, phimmoi would certainly not have achieved the success it has today. It is known that not long ago, the advertising rates of phimmoi were leaked on social media, where the price for a banner ad on this pirated film website could reach up to 200 million VND per week (the highest price), while the lowest could still be 15 million VND per week.
In addition, another website is also being “suspected” of being the reincarnation of phimmoi. That is the domain Mphimmoitv. It’s unclear which one is the real version of phimmoi, but surely, many people will not agree with the methods of these pirated websites. However, having existed for many years, it is clear that phimmoi is still highly regarded by many for its ability to update new films.