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?

  •  Elarionus   ( @Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OPEnglish
    43•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   ( @Evkob@lemmy.ca ) English
      16•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!

      •  CmdrShepard   ( @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ) English
        1•1 year ago

        RARBG was the peak but 1337x is still okay despite them constantly listing fake seed/leech numbers. I’ve ranked it just above TPB in sonarr/radarr after they’ve grabbed numerous files with ‘30 seeders’ that wind up sitting idle in QBit for days without seeders until I delete it and blacklist the release because they don’t update their counts.