• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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      My country plays wack a mole with their domains. I mostly rely on 2 private trackers now

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        Wouldn’t this be solved by using a DNS server your country as no control over?

        But anyway PirateBay is not recommended anymore.

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    Oh no, the youngins are on their “if no one talks about it, the corpos won’t know” delusion again.

    Security through obscurity isn’t security, and plenty of sites have survived longer than most of you have been pirating despite coverage by actual news organizations. Your least (or most) favorite youtuber (or forum, or guide, or wiki) isn’t moving the needle.

    If you aren’t part of the actual scene that’s sourcing shit for day 0 (or earlier) upload you have nothing to worry about regarding open discussion through psuedonymous social media. Or people making youtube videos. Or guides etc.

    Pirate sites and fan projects that get shut down weren’t going to last anyway. Real ones arr either set up to last or find a way to continue. Like Pirate Bay and AM2R.

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      There’s some irony in that you still think the Pirate Bay has some use in today’s way of pirating. Okay, grandpa, you’re out of nursing home curfew.

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      Yeah but I don’t want to have to deal with community drama, upload requirements, minimum seed ratios that you can’t hit because you aren’t downloading popular enough torrents, applying to get in like it’s some fucking C-level job application… Some of us pirate because we want content, not because it’s a lifestyle.

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        Just fuckin with ya. Those are all valid gripes. I guess I got in on the scene way early through invites from friends and so I’ve hardly ever had to go through any interview process. I think the only place I “interviewed” was baconbits and it wasn’t really an interview since I mostly just shared evidence of good ratio on other trackers with long-lived accounts. I’ve had an account in good standing on Cinemageddon for… 18 years as of next month. Getting over that initial hump made it pretty easy to get in with good standing, and most decent trackers aren’t that hard to get good ratio on.

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      Popular video gets attention. Attention reaches company. Company reaches for lawyers. Lawyers reach for cease and decist forms.