📰 New article from TorrentFreak
Video Game Giants Suddenly Have RuTracker in their Crosshairs Again
https://torrentfreak.com/video-game-giants-suddenly-have-rutracker-in-their-crosshairs-251221/
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RuTracker just got a DMCA grenade tossed at it—and this time, the ESA means business.
For over 20 years, RuTracker has been the Russian-language Pirate Bay of gaming piracy—surviving domain seizures, global blocks, and enough takedown notices to fill a Steam library. But while the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) spent the last few years chasing indie repack sites like FitGirl, they’ve now turned their sights back on the old giant.
Last week, ESA filed a DMCA subpoena against Cloudflare—not to take down links (good luck with that on a Russian site with 287k+ URLs), but to find out who runs RuTracker. The notice? A list of game titles. No URLs. Just… guesswork.
Translation: They’re not trying to clean up the site. They’re trying to unmask it.
Cloudflare can’t delete individual torrents—but they can hand over IP logs, domain registrations, and server traces. And if ESA’s lawyers are sniffing around Cloudflare’s terms of service? That’s not a takedown. It’s an investigation.
After 21 years of dodging copyright cops, RuTracker might finally meet its match—not in a court order, but in a digital paper trail.
The game’s not over. It’s just getting personal.
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