Thank you for being our friends and thanks for staying with us that long,” the 123movies team writes. The news comes just days after a recent investigation by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) that has found that the illegal movie site is being operated from Vietnam. “Right now, the most popular illegal site in the world, 123movies.to (at this point), is operated from Vietnam, and has 98 million visitors a month,” said Jan van Voorn, executive vice president and chief of Global Content Protection at the MPAA.