IANAL, but my understanding is that running a content-neutral tracker is legal in the US.
In other jurisdictions it most certainly is not, and the VPS maybe in a different jurisdiction and the .si TLD definitely is.
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In other jurisdictions it most certainly is not, and the VPS maybe in a different jurisdiction and the .si TLD definitely is.
I think there have probably been more. There are definitely more that had civil suits with MPAA etc suing for damages.
It may be somewhat harder to make the case in the US, but a tracker where a great majority of what's listed is copyrighted, I'm pretty sure it can be shut down in the US.
God I miss rarbg. And KAT.
I miss shit being worth torrenting. Maybe things have changed, maybe I grew up, but:
1. Most utility software you need is free, save for a few programs you can easily find on Russian torrents.
2. Most games and other media are slop.
Torrents didn't die because US law enforcement made them die. Torrents died because most companies realized that providing slop with ads and lootboxes for free is a much better business model than trying to get people to pay for something of quality.
Imagine trying to tell someone in year 2000 that Windows will natively display ads, EA will lose lawsuits related to FIFA being actual old-fashioned gambling, and music industry will push for AI-generated content. Yet somehow we accept this as completely normal in 2025. No wonder nobody ain't torrenting shit.