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Ironically, the biggest russian torrent site is just a phpbb forum and it is wonderfully organized and very well moderated. Easy to find the content you want.

Fun fact: previously it tried to cooperate with the content owners and removed content by request, so the UX was considerably worse. But then, someone successfully litigated to block them 'forever' in Russia, so... They restored all prevoiusly removed content and now it has almost everything I ever wanted. Great win!



Sorry, who is the them here? The people who sued? The pirates? Users? The Russian site itself is blocked on Russia?


'them' is rutracker.org, it is blocked in russia. 'someone' is some copyrast litigator who's actions backfired.


What is their site?


I guess rarbg.to.


rutracker.org




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