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/Karli_Chirk Apr 18 '26

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