@dilemmax I haven't noticed the same but, at a guess: it's Thanksgiving. Perhaps whoever is working to submit DMCA notices has a couple of days off.

I have mentioned before (though it is far too early to tell if this is the case yet), but these things tend to ebb and flow...

Not too long ago, Corbin Fisher's parent company was actively pursuing both seeders and leechers of their content - in court! These days, they don't even DMCA their content much... they accept the torrent "losses" as part of the business model, and I suspect OF will come to the same conclusion eventually as well...

@raphjd is @Joker the site owner?

Correct

I am just an admin, not the site owner.

please forward it to the site owner for consideration

Request: 12943641, Date: Nov 19, 2021
Specified domain: gaytor.rent
URLs requested to be delisted: 269
https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/request/12943641

Request: 12890732, Date: Nov 13, 2021
Specified domain: gaytor.rent
URLs requested to be delisted: 87
https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/request/12890732

Request: 12731605, Date: Oct 25, 2021
Specified domain: gaytor.rent
URLs requested to be delisted: 372
https://transparencyreport.google.com/copyright/request/12731605

"Rulta OU", another DMCA takedown company, seems to be hired by individual models, but they are only a few models taking their torrents out of GTRU. This N/A company seems to be the problem.

They request URLs to be delisted, so why not hide GTRU from google search mechanisms?

PS: All this information I posted here is publicly available and part of Google Transparency, therefore I'm not doing anything wrong by sharing it here for you all to see.

Part of the popularity of GTRU is that much of its torrents are publicly available, which is a double-edged sword. If something is public on Google, that means the torrents can be found by porn fiends AND automated bots.

GTRU is one of the biggest gay porn torrent (maybe the largest?). If OnlyFans or performers or their paid DMCA representatives were to repeatedly infringing sites, this would be it.

I'm not personally privy to the software behind the automated monitoring methods, but they likely utilize a combination of simple text and image scanning. Some basic obfuscation methods will usually beat the monitoring:

Word obfuscation: R3n0 G01d vs Reno Gold
Image obfuscation: flip or rotate the image

Some other thoughts:

There are categories that are more high-risk for copyright violations than others (like Fansites). I don't know if the torrent site is capable of it, but maybe the site could make certain categories (like Fansites) private and only viewable by members?

I agree that the torrents should NOT be publicly available.

And Fansites category should be more protected and hidden. Also instruct uploaders to edit the preview images before uploading them and edit the title of the torrent, videos, description etc... If nothing changes then well, I don't see the point of keeping an FS category.

Even weirder I've recently seen some of the torrents that were posted here and deleted in hours pop up on another site and not only last longer, but get reposted here because the original was deleted so fast.

I think that's a pretty clear indication of what some had suspected: that GTRU either got big enough to finally draw more serious scrutiny or additional scrutiny was brought to it for other reasons.

@raphjd - If I have a tab open for a torrent that's been marked as a duplicate, and I refresh that tab, I see "Access Denied" and the page title looks like "DUPLICATE https://gaytorrent..." (the word duplicate followed by a link to the original upload.)

If I have a tab open for a rule-breaking torrent that is in Themed Movies, but isn't gay themed, and I refresh that tab, I'll see "Access Denied" and the page title will say something like "NOT THEMED". Similar for "collections" that are determined to have no common theme.

These torrents aren't deleted, they're restricted so that no ordinary user can see them in the search results or download them.

This is different. These torrents are being deleted. If I refresh the tab, I'll see "No torrent with ID."

There were always lots of takedowns on this site, and as others have pointed out, if this site didn't comply with DMCA it would have been sued out of existence many years ago, just like TBP.

What's different in the last few weeks is the speed and quantity of takedowns. Even the most rapid deletions used to take at least a few hours, and torrents often lasted for a day or two before disappearing. Now it happens very quickly, often in less than 30 minutes, and the number of torrents that are being deleted is much, much greater, covering a much wider range of material.

I tested this again this morning by looking through torrents posted during the night, opening them in tabs, then waiting a few hours and refreshing the tabs. At least two dozen of them were deleted, and some of them had nothing to do with OF. Some included amateur vids that have never been deleted before, i.e. part 2 of a Voyeur compilation from a site that doesn't exist any more and never had any copyrights over its user-contributed contents to begin with. None of them were duplicates or against the rules.

I understand that OF is on a takedown binge and it might last for a very long time; they have plenty of money to pay for takedown services. They've become the dominant source for porn, and prior to the last few weeks, more than 50% of the new content posted to GTRU was from OF. Why so many other torrents are also disappearing quickly is much more of a mystery to me.

In any case, the OF takedowns are having the desired effect. There is already much less content from OF being posted, and as more and more users see their uploads deleted in 30 minutes or less, they'll give up and go elsewhere. Of course, if "elsewhere" gets too popular, OF will go after it too, and the users there will go through this same frustrating experience.

It's funny Ive had tabs open to check torrents out later and have noticed the same thing you did with the tabs reporting "dupes" vs not.
To top it off, like most if not all content in the Fansite category is doomed. Like no other section of the site I think has 1 hour old torrents then 2 weeks old on the same page. There are currently TWO torrents in that category from last week lol.

It's fine if it can't be addressed directly, I'll just say it's weird that a gay sites getting this much direct heat. Even weirder I've recently seen some of the torrents that were posted here and deleted in hours pop up on another site and not only last longer, but get reposted here because the original was deleted so fast.

@therock07 wow never knew about that! The things one can find on the internet. gay-torrents.net does not seem to be tat affected as this site. I have never seen their search results pop up on Google. I guess I'll be using them instead

I think gt.net has fewer takedowns because they don't permit posting of torrents with material from quite a few sources--for example, EnglishLads can't be posted there. They also have a much smaller collection, usually less than 50 torrents per day, so there's less likelihood that they'd have takedown-prone material. (But I'm not criticising the site: It's well-designed, the content it has is good, and the forum has nice discussions.)