The most consequential legal confrontation unfolded in , when the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) sued the LimeTorrent operators for facilitating the distribution of pirated video games. The lawsuit alleged that LimeTorrent knowingly enabled the sharing of cracked software, violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the Copyright Act .
Similar incidents occurred in (a court order from a German copyright holder) and 2019 (a US federal injunction). Each time, LimeTorrent’s operators leveraged the “offshore hosting” model to re‑establish service under a different domain. limetorrent.cc