Is something happening to TPB? (lemmy.today)

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[-] Carmakazi@piefed.social 89 points 2 months ago

To answer your question directly: No idea.

Of tangential importance to your question: Apparently TPB has been considered untrustworthy for a number of years, probably since it "returned" after the original crew behind it did a stint in Swedish prison. Infected torrents have been found there and the "skull" ratings mean very little.

[-] Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 29 points 2 months ago

I admittedly dont do a ton of sailing, but yeah I feel like avoiding TPB has been recommended for at least a decade now

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 15 points 2 months ago

1337x, torrentgalaxy, nyaa(anime), rutracker(music) and btdig(everything) should cover all your needs.

[-] Sentry64 2 points 2 months ago

didn't torrentgalaxy die due to lack of funding?

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

Torrentgalaxy.one seems functional

[-] Sentry64 3 points 2 months ago

Huh, i thought it died because last time i tried accessing it. It was completely nonexistent (for some reason) and after, what? a few months or so? it disappeared from FMHY.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 11 points 2 months ago

Infected torrents have been found there

*laughs in Linux*

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Oh that’s adorable, you think you are untouchable. Please look into the XZ incident and get back to us.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, yeah. Only mostly untouchable.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

The point is Linux lets you do things, even stupid things. It cuts both ways. The average user isn’t more secure there, the attacks are just different.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 points 2 months ago

But 99% of the problems can be avoided if you just don't do stupid things.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Translation: Linux is secure if you don’t let stupid people use it.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

Has any pirate site ever been trustworthy? And if you run pirated software, you get what you get. Roll the dice or wait for a Steam sale.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 months ago

Has any pirate site ever been trustworthy?

Yes. Next question.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Haha ok psyop

[-] abies_exarchia@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 months ago

I mean its a spectrum and many private trackers are much further down the trust side than the pirate bay

[-] Anarki_ 1 points 2 months ago

Wrong house, fool.

[-] dan@upvote.au 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

wait for a Steam sale.

Not sure why someone in this community would suggest Steam over GOG. Every game on GOG is DRM-free, so you own it forever and the installer will keep working even if GOG goes away.

Games on Steam are a license they can revoke at any time. You don't actually own the game. Some games are DRM-free, but there's no way to get a standalone installer for them.

Some people pirate or crack games they legally own, just so they have more flexibility and aren't treated like a criminal by DRM systems. You don't need to worry about that with GOG.

[-] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It show me a cloudflare error, it seems down. But there are gazillion other torrent sites, my general goto is 1337x.

[-] Anon518@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

l337x sometimes does strange things too, like cause an odd file to start downloading instead of loading the main page.

[-] smitheee@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

This is only true for the .to version i believe. It's some cloudflare error. The .st version works like a charm

[-] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, what is your general, no registration torrent site? I used to use limetorrents as well, but I havent checked it for a while.

[-] exaybachae@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

I've seen warnings like that when a sites certs expire. Well maintained sites don't usually let that happen, but I've seen it plenty for torrent sites. It's usually fixed in a few hours or a day.

Like others said, it could also be the ISP, so you can try a VPN, even a free one would probably do, if that was the issue.

You can also try resetting cached data for that site specifically. How to do that is different per browser, search online for more info specific to your browser.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

No https problems for me.

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

https://piratebayproxy.info/

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It might be your ISP trying to block it. I'm surprised they're not using HSTS to force HTTPS.

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