We don’t pretend to be lawyers. We do respond instantly to any verified DMCA claim from a rights holder who still actively sells the work. If a game gets re-released on Steam or GOG, we remove our torrent within 48 hours. We’ve done this 14 times in two months. No drama. No “information wants to be free” grandstanding. Just compliance with a clear boundary: active market = no torrent.

We don’t accept donations. We don’t run ads. We don’t have a premium tier. GogTorrent runs on small monthly contributions from a handful of archivists who believe that digital history shouldn’t vanish because a company shut down or a server went offline.

“Isn’t this still piracy?” Morally? Sometimes. Legally? It’s complicated. Copyright was designed to balance creator rights with public access. When a work is commercially dead – no legitimate way to buy it, no digital storefront, no re-release planned – then blocking access serves no one. Not the creator (they get $0 anyway). Not the publisher (they abandoned it). Not culture (which loses another piece of its memory).

We’re not heroes. We’re not villains. We’re digital junkmen, picking through the abandoned warehouses of old software, salvaging what still works, and handing it to anyone who remembers – or never knew – that this stuff existed.

– The GogTorrent collective Preserve, don’t plunder. Our entire site code is open-source. Our torrent blacklist is public. And yes, we have a Matrix room. Come say hi before the lawyers do.

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We don’t pretend to be lawyers. We do respond instantly to any verified DMCA claim from a rights holder who still actively sells the work. If a game gets re-released on Steam or GOG, we remove our torrent within 48 hours. We’ve done this 14 times in two months. No drama. No “information wants to be free” grandstanding. Just compliance with a clear boundary: active market = no torrent.

We don’t accept donations. We don’t run ads. We don’t have a premium tier. GogTorrent runs on small monthly contributions from a handful of archivists who believe that digital history shouldn’t vanish because a company shut down or a server went offline. gogtorrent

“Isn’t this still piracy?” Morally? Sometimes. Legally? It’s complicated. Copyright was designed to balance creator rights with public access. When a work is commercially dead – no legitimate way to buy it, no digital storefront, no re-release planned – then blocking access serves no one. Not the creator (they get $0 anyway). Not the publisher (they abandoned it). Not culture (which loses another piece of its memory). We don’t pretend to be lawyers

We’re not heroes. We’re not villains. We’re digital junkmen, picking through the abandoned warehouses of old software, salvaging what still works, and handing it to anyone who remembers – or never knew – that this stuff existed. We’ve done this 14 times in two months

– The GogTorrent collective Preserve, don’t plunder. Our entire site code is open-source. Our torrent blacklist is public. And yes, we have a Matrix room. Come say hi before the lawyers do.