TL;DR: it's not directly mentioned in the linked article but it looks like the United States is pissed at http://www.ex.ua/ http://www.ex.ua/ for media piracy [

TL;DR: it's not directly mentioned in the linked article but it looks like the United States is pissed at http://www.ex.ua/ http://www.ex.ua/ for media piracy [1]. A little background: Ex.ua is a combined direct-download file hosting service, search engine and torrent tracker that's positively huge in CIS countries. Unlike private torrent trackers to which it can be compared in terms of quality and quantity of pirated content Ex.ua does not have an invite system and the company that owns it is fairly public about its activity up to and including officially sponsoring numerous music events and even charity. For an interesting look into a kind of a "parallel web" I'd suggest that you get a Ukrainian proxy (and translation software, should you need it) and browse the website yourself for a while but here is a sample search for "star wars 1080p": [2]. Locally you should be able to download at over 100 Mbps given sufficient bandwidth at your end thanks to the Ukrainian Internet exchange point (UA-IX) but from most other countries it's not only considerably slower but also only partially accessible. Just how much you can access depends on your IP's geolocation. [1] http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2013/2013SPEC301UKRAINE.PDF http://www.iipa.com/rbc/2013/2013SPEC301UKRAINE.PDF [2] http://htmlpaste.com/16d34b5749f5a990fc7c66dfad6e650fa1de476a http://htmlpaste.com/16d34b5749f5a990fc7c66dfad6e650fa1de476... (this is just the first 100 results of an undisclosed total)