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“If Western brands do not want to fight piracy in a particular country, it means that they are actually legalizing piracy of their content”

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[-] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 8 months ago

The title of the article is a bit misleading, as upon reading it you may came to conclusion that Russian pirate infrastructure is actively hunted by goverment. That's not really true and the article itself adds some significant nuances.

Long story short: Piracy in Russia over last two years has greatly increased overall (in both demand and supply) due to sanctions making legal options unavailable. Number of piracy takedown requests has also increased, but only reason for that is local streaming services hunting for local content. This effectively means that it's enough for siteop to remove some Russian titles from the library (or hide them for Russian IPs) to keep operating without any significant legal problems.

So pirates worldwide are benefiting from more pirate services with more content and better speeds that their Russian fellows keep bringing them.

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