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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[-] Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

You're right, I don't mean to sound entitled in any way, I'm just...frustrated and a bit lost. And it's hard, because I don't necessarily know where to look for help because the community (naturally) is fairly underground. Even signing up for this and posting this makes me nervous that I'll "get caught" somehow, despite having a VPN.

You're right though, I just assumed that since Torrents seem to be the best method, they'd be at the top. But they're down there, I'm just clueless. I'm already having success with the 1337 site other people recommended though, which is good to know about.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Hey props to you for acknowledging it, we all have our moments!

I definitely feel you on how frustrating it can be sometimes to access information in the piracy community, both due to potential legal repercussions and to a certain insularity. Pirates don't always want to share the cool new thing, because sometimes when too many people start knowing about the cool new thing, corporations will also learn about the cool new thing and want to shut it down.

1337x.to has been my go-to for a while, I rarely fail to find what I'm looking for there!

[-] rosatherad@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Echoing what this person said! ^

[-] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

You essentially said "this", but with more words. Please add more to the discussion by sharing your thoughts on what he said instead of echoing.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Your policing of conversation isn't really adding to the discussion either, is it? You could just downvote, or better yet, ignore it and move on.

[-] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

No, it is adding to the conversation because I am providing feedback to improve their comment which can contribute to the discussion. Ignoring and moving on is what enabled reddit to turn to shit.