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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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[–] olrik@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why not go private? alpharatio, mac-torrents, myanonamouse, PTP, BTN, RED, there are plenty of options.

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Suggesting PTP and BTN to someone who has never used private trackers before is a bit mean.

[–] olrik@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I guess I'm old, I've been on those for 10+ years and didn't realise they don't allow new members. My bad (no irony, I am actually 42 years old).

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PTP recently became possible again via RED but it is a loooong road for a new comer.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meh these places seem like little more than a exclusive club that members can lord over the outsiders. I've had little issue finding content using a mix of 'B tier' private trackers and public sites, none of which had some long convoluted membership process. I don't think they're worth the trouble.

[–] uyuu@lemmy.4d2.org 1 points 1 year ago

PTP definitely worth it.

[–] d_bradr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I never really looked into PTs, I just found stuff on GOG, 1337, Dodi and FitGirl. Gotta give PT a shot one of these days. Same as usual, Qbit for DL just from different trackers?

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TorrentLeech (TL) is currently having open signups with the invite code: REFUGEERARBG. Just make sure you read the rules. Also let me know if you have any questions.

[–] master@lem.serkozh.me 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to their own news feed, the giveaway ended on June 9th

[–] theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Dang, I thought it was the whole month of June for some reason.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Same as usual, Qbit for DL just from different trackers?

Since no one's answered this yet: yes, but with some caveats:

  • Being private, there's a sign-up process. Usually means getting an invite from someone or catching a lucky open registration window (/r/opensignups was good for this, unsure where to look now)
  • As someone else mentioned, there's usually some rules. Mostly reasonable things, like seeding for x days or y ratio. This prevents leeching and keeps the downloads generally well-seeded for longer.
[–] olrik@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry I have no idea of what you're taking about. I'm old, I've been on private trackers for over a decade now and I haven't followed suit with other sources.

[–] MiserableConstruct@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

So I use IPTorrents, and I've heard of a lot of shady stuff with the people who run it. It's the only private tracker I've ever been able to join though. I've been wondering if there is a reason to look at others. Aside from ethics is there anything one of those you listed does that is different? Or are all trackers fairly close to the same?