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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I see a lot of comments about how TPB tends to have the most seeders.

I'm not knowledgable enough to answer this myself, but is there any reason when downloading things from a public tracker to not just chuck every public tracker from one of the automatically updated github lists into the trackers section for it in your client?

The reverse would be to add the TPB tracker to public torrents from other sources, if you wanted to grab any seeders for the same torrent from TPB, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TPB used to be great once, now it is riddled with malware. There are safer alternatives like 1337x, rutracker & torrentgalaxy etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If you can use Linux for your torrenting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Huh, before reading this thread I'd never known that people didnt like tpb, I use it all the time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the post. I'm a novice at pirating too and i think i was a bit lost too. This post and the megathread helps a lot.

The most sophisticated thing i did previously was to get mullvad as a vpn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This could turn out to be a bad decision. removing the support for forwarded ports Without Portforwarding you will not be able to seed properly.

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