I've never known so many shutdowns inside 2 weeks as the last two have been. Even websites pirating manga were shut down. What happened? What's with this massive legal wave of shutdowns, and why now?

  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    ·
    20 days ago

    Interest rates are up. The free money tap got turned off so now every normal citizen is gonna get the broomstick up the ass to make funny big number go up.

  • knightly [none/use any]
    ·
    20 days ago

    The Olympics.

    Anti-piracy operations always pick up when big sporting events happen because the networks that pay for broadcast rights don't want to have to compete with unlicensed streams.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    ·
    20 days ago

    My first pirate foray came in 5 1/4" floppy disk format and all I can say it that the high seas have always had heavy casualties. During the adoption of streaming services, the waters calmed for a bit. Now that those services have enshittified, pirate providers have seen a rise in demand which in turn has heated the battles once more.

  • Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    ·
    19 days ago

    It may just be coincidental. Chasing hosters and legal battles takes time.

    Random instances can group, that's soll random.