Submitted 3 weeks ago by Patnou@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Its not a new thing by any means. But recently they did sort of start to “encourage” piracy, as a way to lash out with their impotent rage against western sanctions and support for Ukraine.
https://www.onsist.com/blog/russia-is-encouraging-online-piracy/
It has always been going on, now its going on a bit more.
Takedowns are the bane of piracy. Russian domain owners don’t get as much legal pressure by the state to act on takedown notices, therefore Russian domains bring a little bit of resistance.
Sidenote, .su used to belong to the ussr but it was never really released and it’s assignment is in a geopolitical limbo, so that domain is even more shady. It’s an interesting story.
P.s. If I got any of this wrong please correct me.
Russia pirating everything is why the R5 DVD was a thing. Usually rushed out before any other region to try and stop them pirating a movie.
Same question but with Italian. The Hindi ones at least make sense, big poor country and all.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
All of a sudden? I’ve always known Russia to be a common source for torrent content, especially repacks.