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Russian missile strikes knock out popular piracy websites
Original: Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites
Russian missile strikes on Kyiv have knocked offline several popular torrent and piracy websites hosted in the Ukrainian capital. The outage was widely noted because it temporarily achieved what years of anti-piracy legislation and takedown efforts by governments and copyright holders could not. Commenters are pointing out the irony that a wartime attack disrupted these services more effectively than legal action ever did, while hosting providers assess the damage and work on restoring access.
Why now: The strikes disrupted sites that lawmakers and copyright holders had been unable to shut down for years, an irony people find striking
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