Affected by the situation in Russia and Ukraine, in recent years, many well-known companies have begun to join the ranks of sanctions against Russia. Audio and video streaming media, including Netflix, Disney, Sony Music, and game manufacturers such as Xbox, EA, Activision Blizzard, and Epic, also announced the suspension of Russian services. Amid the ongoing blockade, the Russian authorities’ response caught everyone by surprise. According to Roskomsvoboda, a Moscow court lifted the block on the domain name on March 2. Rutracker is Russia's largest resource download website, providing a large number of free resources for popular movies, music, animation, games and software.
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Russia lifts the ban on RuTracker and wants to legalize piracy!
Maozi releases the ultimate killer, and global software opens the era of zero-yuan purchases!
The pirated website RuTracker is unblocked, and the Internet may go back 20 years!
Putin unblocks hackers with a wave of his hand , piracy is allowed!
This cracked resource site released by Russia is far beyond your imagination!
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I really admire the grandeur of these creative directions. , but at the level of facts, they have also been obsessed to the point of serious nonsense.
The dissemination of this kind of news is very consistent with the contemporary Internet's desire for emotional content. It is based on a basic fact that lacks sensationalism, and is artificially glued with a bunch of wrong understandings and performances. In the end, a narrative was constructed that conforms to most emotional tendencies, that is, dissatisfaction with the sanctions imposed on Russia, and full expectation that Russia can use its trump card to "reverse" the situation.
The first is the "basic fact" that RuTracker has been unblocked. According to Gamelook's research, Russia's Information Technology Supervision Bureau Roskomnadzor did not remove RuTracker from the banned list. It was the first to reveal that RuTracker was unblocked. The source of the news was that he did not search in the correct category under the banned list, and because RuTracker was not on the list found, he mistakenly thought that Russia suddenly took out RuTracker.
So in fact, even this news, which I call "basic facts", is false. Of course, I don't think it is actively spreading rumors, because it is too easy to be falsified, and you will know after a quick check. Quan is really wrong when it comes to the source, but this is not important to what I want to complain about. You can just assume that Russia has really released the terrifying RuTracker.
Well, when this news first spread, someone actually visited RuTracker.org and found that it was actually possible to go there. Then they searched for various software and movies and found that wow, all of them were there. You can download it at will without spending a penny. This is simply ridiculous. Russia is simply a fortress. Those software and game manufacturers involved in the sanctions will cry to death now, hahahaha!
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As I said above, Russia has not lifted the ban on RuTracker. This is very strange. They have done nothing. How can you successfully access RuTracker based on a wrong news? ?
This is like saying that you thought your neighbor loaded his shotgun and took it away for hunting, but you didn’t know that your neighbor didn’t put bullets in it. You saw a shotgun while carrying the shotgun. Take aim at the deer and pull the trigger. With a bang, the deer was indeed killed. Is this a miracle? Or is there actually a bullet in the barrel all the time?
All those who spread and consume Russia’s lifting of the ban on RuTracker, either really don’t know, or pretend not to know, what does this ban mean?
Its background is that under the protective litigation of transnational intellectual property rights, based on the principle of territoriality, every country participating in the international order will more or less deal with pirated websites within its own territory. Generally, They will all shoot first, that is, whoever is larger will be more likely to be targeted by the judiciary.
The most troubled piracy website in the world is undoubtedly The Pirate Bay. It was founded in Sweden. Because it had the largest traffic and the most die-hard fans, it has become a thorn in the eyes of governments around the world. In the past dozen years, Over the past year, I have been forced to move around, and my server has been moved everywhere. I even raised funds to buy an island and declare the founding of a country. I created sovereignty to protect piracy. I have a lot of imagination.
RuTracker, as the largest piracy website in Russia, was declared illegal by the Moscow court in 2015 and was then included in the banned list.
But!
For products like websites, the data is all in the cloud. Unless you can destroy all the backup servers at once, it is impossible to throw it into the cloud like a living person. Once in prison, there will be no sound at all.
So the so-called Russian ban on RuTracker is nothing more than joining forces with Russian communication operators (equivalent to our China Telecom and China Unicom) to block traffic relayed from these operators from accessing RuTracker. .org is all.
In other words, the banned RuTracker has actually been living well, right? It’s just that the Russians can’t use their own intranet. As long as you don’t access the Internet from Russia, in this You can access RuTracker anywhere and at any time on the earth!
And if you go into detail, during the years when RuTracker was banned by Russia, its server was in the West, and its domain name was also In the West, it can be said that we have survived under Western rules. In intellectual property litigation, we cannot ask the US domain name management agency to accuse someone of piracy and block its domain name.
This is what I mentioned before, why immediately after the release of RuTracker in Russia, someone discovered that it was really possible to get the treasure, because for it! From! Come! No! There is! No! Can! Go! Pass!
Finally, let’s talk about the sensational expression of whether we are about to usher in the era of great piracy.
Yes, RuTracker is the largest piracy website in Russia. This is true, but globally, its traffic at its peak was barely in the Top 10. In this world, avoid There are too many pirated websites that are blocked and well-operated. New Zealand's YTS, the United States' 1337x and Rarbg, Japan's Nyaa, France's Torrent9, and the United Kingdom's Magnetdl? can't be counted on two hands.
On each of these websites, you can search and download various movie/software/game resources at any time. If it could really bankrupt the copyright owner, they would have gone bankrupt a hundred times.
The principle of these websites is actually very simple. They are equivalent to a search engine that specializes in collecting P2P resources. The crawler grabs magnet links and other information in the DHT network, and then presents it to its own website, that is So boring and without any magical technical content, RuTracker is no different from them.
So there is no such thing as a powerful cracking team in Russia that can work freely from now on. They have no online or offline relationship with websites like RuTracker, just like I saw someone in NGA. After searching for the cracked version of Laotouhuan on RuTracker, it was natural to interpret it as Russian hackers retaliating against Western sanctions and then cracked the most popular commercial games and uploaded them to pirated websites...
How to put it, a pleasure When the script of grudges is completed, sometimes there is no need to scrutinize and verify the principle. In the online world where everyone can be a screenwriter, as long as it can satisfy the intracranial orgasm, there are novel materials everywhere that can be assembled and shipped at any time.
As for why everyone is shocked now by this product that can find any source? The explanation I can think of is that the long-term streaming service has unknowingly disintegrated too many memories of the classical Internet era . For today's netizens, if iQiyi B site cannot find a movie on Netflix, it is equivalent to not being able to see the movie.
So when Bilibili bought the rights to some classic movies on the shelves, I didn't understand that I already wanted to watch XXX, and now I finally can. They don't really have the ability to proactively find these resources.
It must be emphasized that when I say this, I really do not have any sense of superiority. I couldn't be prouder of my proficiency with chopsticks. At the same time, I do not advocate that piracy is reasonable. I'm not interested in engaging in value judgments. Those pirated websites objectively operate in this world. I just expressed the facts and didn't want to promote it.
At the same time, the crackdown on piracy by intellectual property rights has gone through several iterations. You can download a pirated copy of Photoshop anytime and no one will care about you. Copyright owners often pursue concentrated litigation at the commercial level. For example, if your company wants to go public, in order to meet the compliance requirements of the capital market, the company's computers are basically legal, and the copyright owner has stuck in this hole, and then every once in a while, the leading piracy platform will be hit - a ban It is inevitable, that is to say, we should increase operating costs and make webmasters tired of life - in such a system, the operation is stable enough.