After ten seconds the page redirects to Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment's website. All Openload domains now redirect to a page stating that the site is no longer available due to copyright infringement, along with a warning against subscribing or using illegal streaming services. In October 2019, Openload was shut down after the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) took legal action against them in Germany. In June 2019, Openload's main domain name,, was suspended. In April 2019, Openload stopped paying uploaders as part of its affiliate program. In February 2019, Reddit was found to be shadowbanning links to Openload.
Openload accounted for more network usage than services such as Hulu.
In 2018, Openload was listed as a notorious market. Openload earned an estimated $95,000 per month from the mining, while their suspected subsidiary Streamango earned an estimated $7,200 per month.
In 2017, Openload was criticized for using their users' browsers to mine the cryptocurrency Monero, using code similar to Coinhive. The domain was later reinstated by Namecheap. In 2016, Openload's domain was suspended by Namecheap due to the large number of DMCA reports they generated. Openload was available as an open alpha in July 2015, and fully launched as of October 2015. Message that appears on after the takedown