The Motion Picture Association (MPA) He has put his sights back hyanime, the popular site of streaming of Anime. This happens after you include it again in your list of the most notorious piracy markets in the world. The portal appears alongside other featured platforms for distributing unlicensed content.
Hianime is once again among the largest piracy sites in the world
HIANIME It is one of the world’s largest anime hacking portals and appears again in the report of the Motion Picture Association (MPA) About notorious streaming sites and links outside the United States. The Office of the United States Commercial Representative (USTR) He requested this report, which identifies the most active piracy markets internationally.
According to the Mpa, Hianime before it operated under the names zoro.to and aniwatch.to. The site ranks 159th globally and received 244.2 million visits from 17.54 million unique users in August 2025, according to data from SimilarWeb. HIANIME It mainly offers anime content and protects your hosting location through a reverse proxy of Cloudflare. However, it is believed that they currently manage it from Vietnam.
The report also mentions other sites that distribute anime illegally, such as AnimeFLV, Anime-sama, and AnimeUnity. It also includes transmission portals such as Cuevana, Futemax and Nunflix. The MPA warns that several of these platforms operate under the model of “piracy as a service”. This system allows anyone, without technical knowledge, to create and monetize a pirate site.
In addition, the document highlights that piracy does not depend only on the sites themselves, but also on external facilitators such as suppliers of Hosting and domain registrars. Added to this is the recent pressure on manga portals and illegal light novels, evidenced by the closures of Comick, Reaper Scans and Light Novel Pub in recent months.
the inclusion of HIANIME In this list you increase the global attention to anime piracy and its legal risks. Entertainment authorities and associations have intensified their efforts to combat it. Fans and users of these platforms should be attentive to changes in access to content. It is also convenient that they look for legal alternatives to enjoy their favorite series.
