OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Hotstar, and many more have been emerging with amazing content. Most of the streaming services have their original content which users cant find on any other platform. However, most of these apps are paid and not all users have the budget for paying for such apps.
Thop tv used to offer its users free movies, tv shows, live tv for its app. The streaming service faced piracy issues and the owner is currently facing a legal trial and have covered everything in detail on the thop tv guide.
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History of Thop TV
Thop TV was founded in 2015 and offered free content to its users. The app gained millions of downloads in a few months from the Google Play Store and Apple app store. The app published copyright content and was removed from the Play Store and App store.
Users then started to download the app apk and torrent files on their smartphones.
Thop TV owner
Satish Venkateshwarlu is the founder and owner of Thop TV app were found after an investigation by the Indian Cybercrime department. In July 2021, he was arrested from his residence in Hyderabad for creating and running the thop TV app.
The 28-year-old techie launched the app which had millions of downloads from India and around the world.
Viewers
Thop TV is known for its free live tv and free movies and most of the users of Thop tv app were from India. The was shut down by authorities after which most of the users started flocking to Thop tv alternatives. The app had over 1 million users using its platform and most of the users came for its live sport tv streaming.
The reason why Thop TV shut down
The Thop tv app published and streamed movies, tv shows, live tv, live sports tv from paid OTT services like Hotstar, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video. All of the content was copyright content and user got their content for free on the thop tv app.
The promoters of the OTT apps seen a drop in the number of users as most of them were flocking to apps like thop tv to consume paid content.
Hotstar India filed a complaint against Thop tv and the owner of thop tv after which the app was shut down and users could not even use the apk app. The servers of thop TV app were shut down by Indian authorities and that was the end of one of the most famous pirated apps in India.
Thop tv channel list
- Sony TV
- Sony HD
- Sony MIX
- Starsports 1 HD
- Starsports
- Colours HD
- CNBC
- AAJ tak
- Food food
- India TV
- News 18
- Zoom
- Food Food
- MTV
- MTV beats
- 9X O
- 9X M
- Star Plus
- Star Gold
- Pogo
Thop TV features
- Live TV streaming
- Fast streaming
- Easy to use mobile interface
- Few ads
- Full HD streaming
- Good audio quality
- Can download and watch later
- Wide range of categories
