The website's URL was changed to putlocker.bz, an address which was seized by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit of the UK in June 2014, and was subsequently changed to putlocker.is, a domain located in Iceland. In March 2012, Putlocker was identified by Alfred Perry, vice president for worldwide content protection at Paramount Pictures, as one of the 'top 5 rogue cyberlocker services'. The website's operations officer, Adrian Petroff, found Megaupload's closure worrying, stating 'who needs SOPA when a studio exec can make a wish/hit list and sites 'voluntarily' shut down?' In early January 2012, the website received about 800,000 visitors a day, but after the website Megaupload was shut down due to copyright infringement, Putlocker began receiving approximately 1.6 million visitors a day. Putlocker originated in the United Kingdom under the URL.

It is not publicly known whether an official Putlocker website maintained by the original team remains available online, but at least fifty mirror or proxy websites, many of which use the Putlocker name, have been identified.

Putlocker's domain address has changed multiple times throughout its history, with a number of URLs bearing the Putlocker name being suspended or seized. Putlocker has been reported by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) as a major piracy threat.

In May 2016, the website was blocked in the UK by a High Court order, and at its peak prior to a temporary closure in late 2016, Alexa Internet listed Putlocker as ranking among the top 250 most-visited websites worldwide. The initial website originated in the United Kingdom in 2011, and grew to receive millions of daily visitors after the shutdown of Megaupload. Putlocker is a file hosting index website used for streaming entertainment media, particularly films and television series, for free. Offline (clones and copy sites available)

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