The lawsuit against Movie4y.com marked the beginning of a series of controversies and shutdowns for the site. In 2016, the site was shut down by the authorities, and its owners were arrested on charges of copyright infringement. The site's owners were accused of profiting from the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content, with estimates suggesting that they had earned millions of dollars in advertising revenue.
When a domain is seized or blocked by authorities, site operators usually simply switch to a new web address (a process called "domain hopping"). This is why you often see slight variations in the URL (e.g., movie4y.to, movie4y.is, etc.). This instability means your favorite movie might be there one day and gone the next, and it makes bookmarking the site a game of cat and mouse. movie4y.com