RARBG

RARBG was founded in 2008. Originally conceived as a Bulgarian BitTorrent tracker (BG in the name stands for "Bulgaria"), the website had been serving an international audience since then. According to TorrentFreak, RARBG specialized in English-language "high quality video releases", but lists other content as well, including "games, software and music." In 2020, the website was listed as a target of Bulgarian law enforcement. Shutdown On 31 May 2023, the site announced its shutdown, citing inflation, side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine preventing it from covering the costs to keep the site running. == Blocking and censorship ==

RARBG was blocked in several countries around the world for legal reasons, generally due to its facilitation of copyright infringement. In 2017, RARBG was filtered out of Google search results following a controversy wherein links to torrent sites were highlighted in Google's "carousel" search results. Due to a lawsuit brought against ISP Hurricane Electric by film studios demanding the personal information of pirates, Sophidea VPN, a VPN service operated through Hurricane Electric, blocked access to several torrent sites as of December 2020, including RARBG. == See also ==