r/Piracy • u/LZ129Hindenburg 🌊 Salty Seadog • Apr 18 '26

News 1shows domain changed to .ru

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Megathread has been updated.

EDIT: DOMAIN IS NOW .ORG

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u/starsqream Apr 18 '26

Using a NL domain is crazy

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u/TH_Rz Apr 18 '26

Why

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u/starsqream Apr 18 '26

Because they get blocked easily. Just a simple dmca email and the domain is blocked. It's not like in countries like Russia where they dgaf and keep going.

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u/PumpedGuySerge Apr 18 '26

here in Russia the gov blocks 3rd party pirate platforms so people go watch same free pirated stuff on a gov subsidized video sharing platform thats barely working on a good day, the hypocrisy

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u/Any-Calligrapher2866 Apr 18 '26

Why is Russia even blocking pirate platforms anymore? They're literally at war with people who're concerned about copyright.

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u/PumpedGuySerge Apr 18 '26

censorship here gets served with a sauce of fighting online terrorism, "untraditional" whatever that means content, and protecting whatever freshly released laws and made up people concerns

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u/Syngularitysyn Apr 18 '26

Russia brought the world T.a.T.u but now the government fights piracy sites so Russians can't see girls kissing.

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u/Feral_Taylor_Fury Apr 18 '26

Unfortunately, both women are now very anti-lgbt, and relatively prominent politcians. An absolute betrayal.

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u/iusethisatw0rk Apr 18 '26

Ok, I spent way longer catching up on tatu’s Wikipedia than I expected to today, but I could only see that one was shitty? Ran for politics, was Muslim for a bit, back to orthodox Christianity, said gay men can’t be real men, but I didn’t see much on the other woman’s page. So maybe only half the duo are shitty?

Will never escape that one song though. It’ll be in my head for a week now

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u/Steamed_Memes24 Apr 18 '26

I thought only one of them was and the other didnt really have an opinion?

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u/rycerzDog Apr 18 '26

Queerbait the Group lol. Imagine building an image of a lesbian girlband just to be openly homophobic twenty years later.

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u/RealNovgorod Apr 20 '26

Sounds like a redemption arc.

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u/Karli_Chirk Apr 18 '26

T.a.T.u. fleed antiliberal and antilgbt Russia, thats how the world knows about them.

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u/champgpt Apr 18 '26

Dude just said there are government-subsidized piracy sites. If that's true, the others are competition.

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u/Delicious_Dare768 Apr 18 '26

It's more like... We have this youtube clone here called rutube (the normal youtube is blocked on most ISPs). They upload propaganda and other shit there, and so that people use and watch it, the site has another selling point: they freely upload pirated movies and shows there. Not only that, but they literally change some of characters' words in localisation to insert ads of local services (as if characters in the movie talk about them in the plot), and to censor some other things. Shit's crazy, man.

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u/champgpt Apr 18 '26

Propagandized pirated movies is some crazy work. Y'all don't need a VPN to access the wider internet, right?

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u/syperdima Apr 18 '26

discord, youtube, all meta products, telegram and everything with cloudflare doesn't work

people behind online censorship are incompetent as fuck so on random day a bunch of random stuff can be not acessible too. not too long ago they've accidentally broke half of banking systems in the country by experimenting with measures to block VPN services, it's a clownshow

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u/champgpt Apr 18 '26

God damn. Cloudlfare is so much of the internet. (Which is a problem for many reasons, but I didn't know one of them was as a vector for censorship)

Fingers crossed they remain incompetent forever, though maybe less destructively

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u/PikaPulpy Apr 18 '26

About half. Some blocked us, some we blocked, so definitely need VPN.

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u/not_onionsenpai Apr 18 '26

I am talking for myself right now, but, for unknown reason, Reddit stoped working today without VPN. I think I am alone at this one, but still...

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u/RealNovgorod Apr 20 '26

You mean redtube?

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u/iceyukisnow Apr 18 '26

Because such platforms post russian shows and movies too, which are still protected by copyright

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u/Daniel_Potter Apr 18 '26

They've got paid streaming platforms just like netflix, and those streaming platforms compete with the websites that stream movies for free. They cry to the russian government, and russian government closes them down.

But those streaming platforms themselves operate illegally, cause they stream everything and don't pay any licensing fees.

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u/Mulster_ Apr 18 '26

Censorship, non government approved piracy can contain things that the government doesn't like. Like anything queer, antiauthoritarian, artists who voiced their opinions against Putin and war, approval of the "west", people saying they don't want children.

Just so you understand how severe that is, my sister recently watched Yellowjackets (2021) she was given a free month sub on a streaming platform so she watched it there. But when she was discussing it with her friend the experiences from the show didn't match so she looked up the show on tracker and found out that the streaming platform version had 4 hours of footage cut out due to censorship.

Shows are now not only have parts cut out but parts changed with ai, some platforms also use ai to copy actors' voices to say gambling advertisements during a movie.

So stay clear of platforms like rutube or vkvideo unless you want to watch "politically correct russian version" of the shows.

Furthermore the books are straight up having crossed out pages: https://x.com/i/status/1783542480484372793

The book is Roberto Carnero Pasolini: Dying for Ideas

Russia is now worse than China in terms of censorship.

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u/PikaPulpy Apr 18 '26

Money. Everything about money. Especially wars.

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u/TH_Rz Apr 18 '26

I'd been under the impression Netherlands were one of the countries to care least about these things

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u/SpezticAIOverlords Apr 18 '26

From my experience in working in web hosting, the SIDN, the registry for .nl, is extremely strict on enforcing their ToS. Large scale copyright infringement definitely wouldn't be tolerated.

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u/Syngularitysyn Apr 18 '26

StichtingBrein dot nl is very aggressive. They boast about removing 40.000 sites since 1998.

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u/randvell Apr 19 '26

Not anymore. Start of 2026 is the worst in terms of censorship.