Is something happening to TPB? (lemmy.today)

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[-] Carmakazi@piefed.social 89 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[-] Sentry64 2 points 1 month ago

didn't torrentgalaxy die due to lack of funding?

[-] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

Torrentgalaxy.one seems functional

[-] Sentry64 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Infected torrents have been found there

*laughs in Linux*

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

Yeah, yeah. Only mostly untouchable.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

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

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Has any pirate site ever been trustworthy?

Yes. Next question.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Haha ok psyop

[-] abies_exarchia@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Anarki_ 1 points 1 month ago

Wrong house, fool.

[-] dan@upvote.au 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.