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Only the content that i don't care about.

4pda pretty obviously.

Seizing domains is HUGE blow but never a "Total Destruction". Such ring is not operated by single enthusiast, it's runned by a team of professional pirate siteops who do this for pretty comfortable living and who foresee such risks and have a plan for this type of incident. And i'm sure they have another bunch of domains already registered and fed to google. There's no significant difference between getting domain banned in the country from where 95% of traffic is coming (and this is frequent issue) and loosing this domain at all. Your traffic is gone, your money is gone. So seizing domains without busting servers and siteops is far from winning final battle.

It's here for ages and it's called sopcast. I was using it decade ago for soccer translations before moving to IPTV. After quick googling i see it's still a thing.

It's required to have literally zero knowledge of worldwide piracy and its current state to post or upvote such things.

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.

Anyone know who was backing the instigators? America? Russia?

I'd bet on France. Russia has no interest in removing Traoré as he's pretty open towards cooperation among two countries. Here's part of his speech on Russia-Africa summit last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8J5mK7JKMY

One of lemmy.world's most popular leaders

This is actually one of the less effective examples of geoblocking that someone could ever imagine.

Russian warez sites are only "Russian" because they're run by local admins as pirate sites located in the Global South have tendency to have a longer lifespan and less chances to end their days by being raided than hosted in the Western world. Most part of such sites users / uploaders are from worldwide, for example, if you'll check your active peers for any active rutracker upload, you'll see, that only small part of them have Russian flag. So such geoblocking makes literally zero impact, as it never prevents user from any other country from uploading the tunes to such website.

Also all Russian users are already geoblocked, as they won't buy anything from you (even if they would want to) because most of webservices that you could use to promote your album won't be able to charge their cards due to sanctions. And if some of such users use foreign VPN + credit card combo and are able to use such services, they are not affected by your geoblocking, as they're attached to different region.

"running android on the Pi and then using LibreTube on that is my best option" really sounds like best option available. Any mediabox with android is better than anything that smart tv has to offer. Once i got my TOX3, i don't remember launching smart tv apps once again. What i've got installed is Revanced, Televizoro (for iptv streams) and LazyMediaDeluxe (for movies streaming).

That was actually shocking to find how many people on piracy themed instance would prefer to publicly beg for censure instead of just blocking communities they dislike from their feed.

If you try to get into private trackers to get AAA game you're definately doing it wrong. There's ton of trusted public sources like rutracker who will deliver popular stuff with minimum delay (or even without it), checking fmhy links is by far more productive than interview/invite martyrdom. Still there's a lot of niche stuff which is only present on private trackers but that's different case.