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Legal and ethical controversies The success of Extratorrent and similar sites made them targets for copyright enforcement and legal action. Rights holders, industry groups, and governments argued that torrent indexes facilitated large‑scale copyright infringement by making it easy to find and download copyrighted works. Legal pressure included domain seizures, litigation threats, and actions against associated services (hosting providers, advertisers, and payment processors). Even where index sites argued they merely provided links and did not host infringing content, courts and anti‑piracy coalitions often considered them contributory facilitators. The ethical debate around such sites was complex: proponents emphasized access to information, decentralized sharing, and resistance to monopolistic distribution channels; critics highlighted harm to creators, lost revenue, and risks from malware-laden or low-quality copies. Related search suggestions (helpful terms) I will now
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Unlike many domains that are seized by law enforcement, ExtraTorrent's demise was unique because it was a voluntary action by its administrator. Because the original site is dead