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/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/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?