The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid

https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-remains-resilient-20-years-after-the-raid/

87•speckx•1h ago

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palmotea•51m ago

> For now, the site remains online, twenty years after Hollywood thought it had seen the last of it. And whoever is in charge today, will likely do everything possible to keep it that way.

I'm vaguely aware that other people than the original group are running it now.

Also, I don't torrent much, but it seems pretty stagnant and dead. It's been occasionally useful to me to find older stuff that doesn't seem to be well represented on newer (public) sites.

Jeremy1026•46m ago

I've never not found something that has been publicly released on it. Though, I don't typically stray too far from the mainstream path for the media I'm looking for.

xnx•43m ago

> on newer (public) sites

Example of said sites?

Retr0id•39m ago

rutracker, 1337x, nyaa are the first that come to mind.

johncoltrane•38m ago

ext in tonga

dyauspitr•40m ago

Torrenting is alive and well… for recent releases and new stuff. All the old stuff is pretty hard to find now. When demonoid was around you could find just about everything. The worst part is for a lot of it there isn’t a legal way to get them either.

everyone•24m ago

That's the tragedy of the MAFIAA death throes period imo.. With all their lawsuits and bullshit they never even slowed down the big public trackers and torrents of the popular stuff they were trying to stop being shared.. Instead they killed loads of small private trackers which housed exquisitely curated collections of stuff that wasn't available anywhere else for neither love nor money.

1970-01-01•39m ago

/top/48hall seems pretty fresh and healthy. What do you mean by stagnant?

moi2388•35m ago

I use Stremio with pirate bay torrents. There literally isn’t anything that came out and isn’t on there.

voidUpdate•35m ago

I can absolutely find new stuff on there. It took Project Hail Mary a little while to get on there, presumably because it was a cinema release only for quite a while but a good quality version popped up after a couple of weeks, and a bad quality "guy holding a camcorder in the cinema" version showed up after about 1 week, IIRC

busterarm•33m ago

once it hit streaming services the webrip was on it within hours.

voidUpdate•32m ago

I don't recall exactly when it went onto streaming, but I'm pretty sure I got a good quality version before that. It may have been released for streaming in other regions earlier than I thought though, I don't keep super up to date with that sort of thing, as I generally don't watch movies super soon after they're released

everyone•27m ago

I find the stream rips to be really shitty quality.. The original source is very low bitrate, compressed tae fuck. I find for stream rips from netflix for example I need to download a 4k rip in order to watch in 1080, and that's acceptable.

everyone•31m ago

<3 Still a great public tracker. We absolutely need people who will run sites like this and crack and bypass stiff like Denuvo and so on. We really do need to keep these sort of skills, tools, and communities alive to be able to resist digital oppression and techno-fascists. Sounds corny as hell but it's true imo.

t1234s•27m ago

If its not on their top 100/48 hr list then its not worth watching.

TFNA•27m ago

When it comes to films, I torrent exclusively remuxes or whole Blu-Ray images. TPB hasn't been relevant for me for the last 15 years or more, since it never had a culture of such large file sizes, just small re-encodes. I wonder why, because obviously that data doesn't have to pass through TPB's own servers.

dmos62•21m ago

Where do you find those? I use 1337 and dht search engines. Can't be bothered to fiddle with private trackers. Wondering if you found something better.

Anonyneko•7m ago

E.g. ext.to aggregates torrents from a lot of public trackers, very often you can find good releases there.

Retr0id•5m ago

RARBG used to be the way to go, until they shut down. I'm not aware of a good public replacement.

alex1138•25m ago

So not to hijack this thread or anything but there's one good metric (if nothing else... the fact FB overwrote your email while Google seems to believe in data liberation, and fewer breaches) to tell apart the difference between those two companies

Google had been asked to remove Pirate Bay in results. They didn't. On Google, and I don't really know how it changed over the years, but there'd be a notice about links removed due to DMCA, if it came to that, basically. (Okay, Youtube, which they own, has always been a bit aggressive, and that isn't nothing)

Facebook? Facebook wouldn't let you SEND a link to PB in private messages. It still deletes your post now if you link Anna's Archive. This after apparently heavily scraping LibGen

I don't love Google for a lot of reasons but I damn well feel better using it compared to Mr. "Dumb Fucks"

Unai•24m ago

I haven't visited a torrent site since I found out I could search for them from within qBittorrent.

Hoodedcrow•10m ago

I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...

tokai•23m ago

The pirate bay raid is a good example of the kind of soft power the US has lost with their recent behavior. Hard to imagine Stockholm police being as receptive nowadays.

edit: I'm very sorry for making a relevant comment that extrapolate on the content of the shared article.

everyone•20m ago

Yes! thank fuck!

dmos62•7m ago

Paradoxically, it's also a good example of the kind of soft power the US still has: we're all watching their movies.

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