RuTracker.org (also stylized as rutracker★org; known as torrents.ru until 2010) is the biggest Russian BitTorrent tracker.[1] As of August 2024, it has 14.7 million registered active users, 2.450 million torrents (2.443 million of them being active), and the total volume of all torrents is 5.6 petabytes.[2]
Type of site | Torrent tracker |
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Available in | Russian |
Revenue | Advertisements |
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Registration | Free |
Users | 14,720,744 (August 2024) / 50,7m unique visits per month (2022) |
Launched | 18 September 2004 |
Current status | Online |
History
edit- September 18, 2004 – torrent tracker was created
- July 5, 2008 – all pornographic materials were moved to a separate torrent tracker called Pornolab.net
- February 18, 2010 – domain name was changed from torrents.ru to rutracker.org[3][4]
- November 9, 2015 – tracker was banned by the Moscow City Court[5]
- January 25, 2016 – Russian Internet providers banned the website as was requested in Court[6]
References
edit- ^ Когда мировая борьба с файлообменными сетями доберется до России? - Online812'). online812.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ^ "RuTracker.org". rutracker.org (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
- ^ «Torrents.ru прекратил работу» (in Russian). 18 February 2010. Archived from the original on 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ Россия 24: Прокуратура отобрала домен у проекта torrents.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2019-08-15. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ Суд навсегда заблокировал RuTracker. Interfax.ru (in Russian). 9 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ «Вечная» блокировка сократила аудиторию Rutracker всего на 13% (in Russian). ВЕДОМОСТИ. 2016-01-28. Archived from the original on 2022-01-30. Retrieved 2022-03-18.