Anyone else having trouble with Render State?

[Cobra]

The weird thing is they're still uploading stuff to the site as of today (9/9/2026), and even the new stuff is having a problem, so I'm guessing whatever is wrong relates to the site itself, and not the file storage sites.

[scoobydude51]

is there any way to contact anyone connected to the site? i know the report broken links form exist on there, but idk if that would work or not as a contact form

[YanOma]

@scoobydude51 Report might work as none of the links are working, so they're technically broken.

[Andy]

I did a "report link" the day before yesterday but didnt get any response. Only the PhuongDzu sites (3dc and DPS) seem to have new active links. Looks like they are going to be offering daily points for daily logging in to download their "premium" stuff if you dont want to fork out real cash!

[John]

the mainly problem comes from the site ddos guard, I think render state is going to realise the problem due to the loss of downloads from their last post.
for now it's not solved, we'll see 😉

[Cobra]

I reported all links broken as well. Maybe if he gets spammed with enough broken links reports he'll be arsed enough to actually find out what's going on.

[Josie]

There has to be a better analogy than a haunted hamster wheel.

[Cobra]

LOL.

The lights are on, but nobody's home.

No one's minding the store.

Asleep at the wheel.

[scoobydude51]

yeah, i'd call Render-state dead by now until something is actually done

[barc]

But he's still updating the site with new content. That's what's so puzzling. He must know there are problems, but he's still just adding away. Perhaps he's gone mad.

[Josie]

When I see stuff like that, it's usually an indication of the feds allowing it so they can just keep stacking copyright violations, and log every IP that visits. Just sayin.

[scoobydude51]

yup. that's a good theory. especially after the site went down. it probably got transferred into a honey pot

[Andy]

is there enough money at stake here for that? None of the asset vendors would have the financial clout of the big studios that are normally behind site take-overs??

[scoobydude51]

@randykoala

DAZ does have something powerful behind them, the Mormon Church (because Utah)

[Josie]

There's something much deeper at play here. It's not just them going after copyright violations. Over the years, hackers, piracy groups, and things like torrent, or even shadow libraries have been the only things that get by the absolute control of information exchange. Which are open to the free flow of communication by whatever means.

First they co-opted the hackers by giving most of them jobs with the NSA and other intelligence gathering agencies. Then they went after piracy and torrenting hard to put a stop to things they don't control. Now they've gone after archive dot org and basically gutted it, causing a group of people to move a lot of literature over to sites where anyone can download free copies. Which happened when archive scrubbed all of that from their site and limited viewing of digital books to the disabled only. As if nobody else in the digital age has a right to read freely available books.

So they're going after low hanging fruit. Something that's just prolific enough to be a copyright infringement concern, but not a large enough user base (compared to movies or TV shows) to get any serious pushback. They are testing their methods for discovering and shutting down these alternate means of sharing information. They don't want anything off the radar. They want to be able to track and trace every single thought, text, verbal communication, video, movement, transaction on the platforms they have ordained as the only avenues for interaction on the web. Anything outside their captured highways, are deemed as a threat that must be stopped so nobody outside of those conduits can spread any information they don't like at all. Not just some boosted video games.

But they're playing a losing game because the more they clamp down, the more creative the people who bypass their control become. Privacy groups are light years ahead of the federal behemoth because they've already seen where this is going. The more people the officials p1ss off, the more people decide to color outside of the lines on purpose. That's just human nature.

And the question nobody wants to look at is: what do authoritarians historically do when the majority of people decide it's in their best interest to flaunt "the law" that says privacy is only for the people in control and not the people in general? Well, then they clamp down more, and in proven cases, they start to eliminate people in large numbers beause they can't otherwise control them. Dead men tell no tales.

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