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How do some torrent sites manage to stay online for so long? And what services would even dare host such content?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Recently I learned a reason the most popular BitTorrent Index is still online is because of cloudflare and easydns.com
https://who.is/whois/thepiratebay.org
Obviously cloudflare could never host the site, it probably redirects the users to the servers that host it. Yet for some reason the domain has not been seized by authorities, but like the FBI did it with a Nintendo Switch ROM Site ?.
If you are wondering why I am asking is because of a ROM site concept I have been thinking for the past 9 months (image redirect to my rentry page)
By the way, you don't have to mention such service in public, you can always send me a private message!
Nintendo is a special case. Their entire business model is based around their first-party games only being available on their systems. As a result, piracy is a much much bigger threat to their business model than it is to anyone else.
(Beyond that I feel that there's a cultural thing where the people calling the shots at Nintendo just hate piracy a lot more than most other companies - they've always been weirdly aggressive about it. But it's not totally irrational - they really depend hard on games like BotW only being available on their systems.)