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.
– 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. gogtorrent
Yes, you read that right. We don’t host cracked AAA games from last month. We don’t leak movies still in theaters. We don’t touch malware disguised as keygens. What we do offer is a meticulously curated collection of digital artifacts that publishers have either forgotten, abandoned, or explicitly allowed to be shared. We don’t pretend to be lawyers
If you know GOG.com (formerly Good Old Games), you know their credo: DRM-free, offline installers, respect for the user. GogTorrent takes that philosophy and stretches it to its logical – some might say radical – conclusion. If a piece of software is no longer sold, no longer supported, and the original rights holder can’t be reached or simply doesn’t care, then preservation trumps permission. We’ve done this 14 times in two months
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.
Seed long and prosper.
Here’s a long-form post written in the voice of someone introducing or defending — a fictional or grassroots alternative torrent platform inspired by GOG.com’s “no DRM” philosophy. Feel free to adapt it for a forum, Reddit, Telegram, or blog. Title: Why We Built GogTorrent – And Why It’s Not What You Think