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by 5e92cb50239222b 1302 days ago
Same here, but for a different reason. An interesting situation happened about ten years ago.

The largest BitTorrent tracker in the country was shut down by authorities for obvious reasons: Linux ISOs were far from the most popular uploads shared there.

Our ISP monopoly (which was owned by someone very close to the Supreme Leader's family) immediately saw a significant drop in traffic, and (according to hearsay, I had no way to check this) clients started leaving off in droves as they had no use for a fast internet connection anymore. 'Foreign' torrent trackers and video streaming were not very practical because of bad connectivity back then.

So the tracker was restored less than a week later and worked fine for about a decade after that.

Corruption finally worked for the good of the community.