What's with the sheer number of shutdowns recently? - eviltoast

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?

  • knightly [none/use any]@hexbear.net
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    4 months 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.