Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Using TPB is like rawdogging a hooker.

I bet only a few of us here use pirate bay these days. Atleast for media.

I suggest 1337 or torrent galaxy. They have seasons packed into a single torrent

I primarily use 1337x.to
The pirate bay has been unreliable for me for years.

There are torrent sites on the megathread... You just have to scroll down to where it says "Torrents" rather than direct download. I'll be honest, you come off as a bit entitled in this post. Calling a free resource that someone took the time to make "useless" just because you didn't take the time to scroll down is a bit rude, IMO. Not that I think you meant to come off that way.

Anyway, here's a link to the torrenting section on FMHY's piracy resource list.. The link should automatically scroll down to the list of torrent sites ;)

There is nowhere near enough quality control or moderation of what's posted on TPB. Yeah it's absolutely got more content and even seeders than elsewhere, but you're really rolling the dice.

It's fine for movies, music, etc, but it's sketchy for software

IMHO the great Days of TPB are long over, there are many good alternatives, some are linked in the Megathread.

Use qbittorrent, add the search tool to it, add all the search engines you can, and then let qbittorrent search all the torrent sites for you. Tpb is just 1 of many.

If you're going to use a poorly moderated site like TPB, you might as well go all-in and use a DHT crawler like Bitsearch or BTDigg. On these websites you can find anything. If it's not on BTDigg, it's probably not on any public tracker.

The only thing The Pirate Bay is good for is the occasional old and rare torrent. In basically every other area it has been outclassed by newer sites for years.

As others have surely said by now, TPB is not safe because they don't do any sort of moderation (or at least whatever they do is insufficient) leading to it being swarmed with infected software.

If you use it for music or videos or other stuff that can't realistically be infected with much (and use a VPN, which you obviously want to always do when using a torrent site but especially when using the most prominent and visible torrent site in the entire world) it is technically safe but there are better options.

Although IMHO the megathread should probably mention it somewhere just in a "here's why you shouldn't use it" sense - I thought it did? Since it's so high-profile that users will probably know about it already and need to be warned not to use it for anything executable at the very least.

I usually go on this order

1. Look for a reputable site that is specifically for what your looking for. For example if I want anime first place I check is nyaa, or for books zlibrary

2. If what I want is not there or not enough seeders I check general torrent sites like 1337

3. If that fails then I check is TPB

ThePirateBay used to be decent but ever since it went down and now there's 9000 clones with varying sketchyness the quality has dropped dramatically.

TPB is not what used to be anyways

You can use 1337x instead, just the same amount and kind of content but without malware.

@Elarionus

Everybody, OP is a troll account. nobody ever uses tpb, it is a last resort kind of site nowadays!

1337x for me. Believe me, I've tried to use TPB but it just sucks. It's old and doesn't have the content I'm looking for.

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

TPB used to be great once, now it is riddled with malware. There are safer alternatives like 1337x, rutracker & torrentgalaxy etc

I see a lot of comments about how TPB tends to have the most seeders.

I'm not knowledgable enough to answer this myself, but is there any reason when downloading things from a public tracker to not just chuck every public tracker from one of the automatically updated github lists into the trackers section for it in your client?

The reverse would be to add the TPB tracker to public torrents from other sources, if you wanted to grab any seeders for the same torrent from TPB, right?

torrentgalaxy.to and rutracker.org are safe alternatives, you actually wanna be infected or what?