Why is thepiratebay not in the megathread, despite being so much better? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Whenever thepiratebay goes down, it is a disaster for me to find anything online. The megathread is next to useless, taking me to all these crazy sites that don't have a torrent option. Instead, they have individual episode downloads of 600 episode TV series. And to access each individual episode, I have to click on a mirror that takes me elsewhere. Then, from that site, I have to click on something that takes me to another site. Then, I have to wait 10 seconds, then I have to confirm the download, then it asks me if I want to pay for premium, then it takes 30 minutes to download one episode.

I'm not actually sure what the community's goal is here. To me, it seems like the entire idea of piracy will go down if thepiratebay ever goes permanently down because this giant "community resource" we have is an utter cluster, with so much garbage shoved in it.

Outside of thepiratebay, how do you guys effectively perform any of the tasks one would want to do on a place like this?

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[-] Yglorba@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

As others have surely said by now, TPB is not safe because they don't do any sort of moderation (or at least whatever they do is insufficient) leading to it being swarmed with infected software.

If you use it for music or videos or other stuff that can't realistically be infected with much (and use a VPN, which you obviously want to always do when using a torrent site but especially when using the most prominent and visible torrent site in the entire world) it is technically safe but there are better options.

Although IMHO the megathread should probably mention it somewhere just in a "here's why you shouldn't use it" sense - I thought it did? Since it's so high-profile that users will probably know about it already and need to be warned not to use it for anything executable at the very least.