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Law-abiding hosting providers don’t openly and explicitly welcome pirate sites. At the same time, many of these third-party service providers have historically taken a neutral position in copyright conflicts. However, under EU law and supporting legal precedents, hosting companies are required to take action against infringement, as doing nothing can become quite costly.
Earlier this month, torrent search engine MagnetDL mysteriously went offline, and there’s still no trace of the site today.
The site had previously gone offline after it faced copyright-related hosting challenges, which may have also played a role in its disappearance.
MagnetDL’s recent troubles were followed by the voluntary shutdown of pirate streaming site Animeflix a few…
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