In short: The website does not hold distribution rights for 99% of its content. In 2015, the original Sockshare domain (Sockshare.com) was seized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of a crackdown on piracy. Since then, successive clones have been targeted by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a global anti-piracy coalition.

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