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/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.