
The giant is alive. He did not disappear. He stands where he stood. And still every hour, thousands of browser boats are moaned to him.
Taking it, you give. This excellent principle of the Bittorrent protocol, created by Bram Cohen, is embodied every day and hour to life on a huge and unshakable router.

In the alexa ranking, the Rutrexer today takes 528th place in the world and the 65th in Russia. He has 12 689 213 of registered users and - at the moment - 2 040 097 live distributions (the number changes every day). On the rutrexer 6 356 830 feasts, that is, those who distribute and download.
What are 6 million people? This is as much as he lives in Rio de Janeiro or Hanoi.
Imagine a huge city, with hundreds of streets and thousands of quarters, densely populated, teeming with people of different characters and beliefs, and they are all busy with one thing: they download and distribute day and night. This is the rutrecter.
We see on the rutrex an amazing picture of the world, in which much more people want to give to give.
For 800 725 larch, that is, those who download, account for 5,556 105 sidov, that is, those who distribute. Hundreds of thousands of people hold distribution on their computers, patiently waiting for someone to be needed. They spend the time of their computers and their own, not receiving rewards for this - except that the virtual “thank you” under the distribution.
According to the tracker himself, the number of downloads at the end of 2020 was 3 508 050 251. Letters: Three and a half billion.
And all this after five years of blocking.
The Rutrex was blocked by a court decision in November 2015. One of the initiators of the blocking was the publishing house Eksmo, which in this way wanted to stop the distribution of the book “Careriner” of Pelevin. The book is still on the rutrexer, I found five distributions of audiobooks. And among the distributions there is a collection of works by Pelevin from 1989 to 2019. For this pogromic campaign, Eksmo worthy to get a lifelong ban from a cultural public. But we have an forgetful audience.
Another initiator of the blocking was S.B.A. Production, subsidiary of the Russian unit Warner Music. S.B.A. Products rolled out a claim to the court that not even the songs themselves are distributed on a torrent tracker, but their phonograms, including the Russian rapper Guf. Now this same GUF, who voluntarily or involuntarily caused the blocking, is on the rutrex in different types, including in the form of distribution of complete discography from 2005 to 2017. I don't want to download.
The blocking turned out to be a zilch.
Warner is not Russian, but the worldwide - is known for the fact that for many years she waged a war with a pirate bay and bored Google with the requirements to exclude links to pirate content from the distributions.

Once in their zeal they went so far that they included in the list of pirate distributions of themselves and blocked the pages of the films “Matrix” and “Dark Knight” on their website.
Well, some, wanting to defeat the enemy, are able to cut off their leg. Or a head.
This very Warner Musicricrus, which five years ago blocked the rutrex with all its intellectual wealth and treasures of world art, today continues its completely legal activity, promoting the artist Schlakoblochina with her hit “New Power of Pussy”. And so that you have no doubt where she has a pussy, a cinder block will show you. And another one.
The Telegram messenger before our eyes was won by the Russian state, which tried to block it. Now no longer tries.
Rutrexer also defeated the Russian state - he retained his servers, retained distribution and retained the audience for which he conducted a timely civil defense and developed several ways to bypass blocking. The blocking was completely meaningless, because anyone can bypass it with one of dozens of ways, regardless of the level of his computer knowledge.

After five years of blocking, Rutrexer continues to be what he was - the largest Russian -speaking cultural center on the network. This cultural center was created without a single penny of state depots. A reasonable state would pay attention to such a unique experience of self -organization and creativity of people and support it - the Russian state indifferently rattled the "Forbid!" And went on.
In the state aids and close to power, there are fuss and binnings around money and grants, including for network projects, and on the rutrex, meanly disinterested people from the Antiquar group created and support hundreds of distribution of unique cultural content. Thousands of pages of rare historical books, magazines and newspapers are scanned by people simply because they consider it necessary to put all this in open access.
The section “For Children, Parents and Teachers” is collected, classified by subsections, described and presented for free download a whole library of textbooks on all branches of knowledge, textbooks, teaching aids for teachers, lasting plans and encyclopedias, as well as unique publications, such as “Mathematics at the School”, all issues from 1937 to 2020. When people fall income, when not everyone has enough money for textbooks and books for children, all this must be preserved. And if the level of education in the country is falling, then it is all the more to save.
Who needs to be, what kind of dubolom and fool, in order to block the Murzilka magazine posted on the Internet (all numbers since 1924).
When, because of the rapper of the Guf, you block the collected works of Nikolai Gogol along with the collected works of Mikhail Bulgakov, and at the same time hundreds of another volumes of Russian classics and books of Russian literature, hundreds of positions on 81 Internet pages, as well as books on philosophy, linguistics, history, history of religions, including rare for centuries-you must think correctly.
But thinking is not their specialization.
Their only specialization is the ban. The ban on everything, the ban on all living things, the ban and eradication of life as such, the ban on the offline and online, the ban is gloomy, gloomy, heavy, and apathetic.