Let them take down and continue the cycle, not sharing would be defeating the purpose of piracy in the first place. We have survived by hopping around for this long and will continue to do so.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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Idk its a lot of effort to make a new piracy cite. People advocating piracy should probably just refere to the wiki or fmhy.
There was a period of time where I was watching a significant amount of new movies coming out on pornhub. Then some jerkoff wrote an article about it and it got posted to reddit and blew up. Like days later pornhub clamped down on that shit hard.
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.
Real ones arr
Nice
Okay so the corpos know.... But compared to power users and then giving that same information to Joe Nobody who had no idea these things existed...that forces them to be a lot more aggressive because now you have "mainstream" attention
Hence my mention about Pirate Bay. There were multiple mainstream news stories about it. Multiple of the founders were unmasked and put on trial, but the site was constructed so that it kept running. It is still running to this day, despite it no longer being the face of piracy that it was long ago.
Edit: In more recent news/sites, Anna's Archive. They have yet another lawsuit against them that isn't going to amount to anything but maybe a few more domain names going down because none of the people operating it have been able to be unmasked.
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Solution: search with Yandex. Russkies don't give a fuck about western complaints of copyright, so every pirate site can show up there. Ahoy! 🦜 🏴☠️⛵
for some reason yandex almost always gives like three captchas per search for me (all ya.ru, yandex.eu and yandex.com), does it work ok for yall?
I usually get captchas when browsing as incognito or if I leave the page unattended for 5+ minutes
I use one of the instances of 4get.ca to search Yandex and other engines
If users can find those sites then corpos find it as well. They don't need YouTube videos to find out about that. I bet it is even someones job in big corporations to find pirate sites and I'd bet the last place they look is on YouTube.
I thought it about getting way more traffic than the site could sustain leading to shutdown.
This is what I've seen sites credit as a reason the most (and copyright infringement).
if too many people know about the site, it will draw attention of the corpos too. that is why i cant fathom why some video sites i have used even tell you to share the site with other people in social media or whatnot.
I agree with you. But at the same time, filming a tiktok promoting criminal activity is really stupid. Not telling people should be rule number 1.
I agree with you. But at the same time, filming a tiktok ~~promoting criminal activity~~ is really stupid.
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Me, still using Pirate Bay since before most of the people in this sub were born.
My country plays wack a mole with their domains. I mostly rely on 2 private trackers now
If you're not using a VPN to visit PB.org from a non- problematic country, are you even trying?
Not sure what this comment means. I'm in a poor eastern country and I use VPN to Netherlands to browse torrent trackers. Pretty sure my country is far more problematic than central EU, but for whatever reason my poor country protects US interests more than most of the EU
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As is tradition.
Traditiooooon! TRADITION!
🎶 The ciiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiife 🎶
*laughs in private tracker
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.
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.
I recently joined a private tracker and your comment about s job interview cracked me off cause it really was like that
The private trackers I'm on also give "credits" for seeding time in addition to seed ratio, so even if not a lot of people are grabbing data from me, I can still download more by keeping my files always seeding.
Now, I'm not in any "big" or "classic" tracker, so maybe this is only a thing on the Smaller/Newer PTs, that being said they have everything I want so 🤷
minimum seed ratios that you can't hit because you aren't downloading popular enough torrents
Autobrr is the cheat code for this. Set it and forget it, come back in a month and you have 5 terabytes of buffer
My private tracker is just 2 weeks of seeding and if no one is leeching, you get credits that can be used to zap torrents or buy upload to keep your ratio high. I just pirate whatever and have my client auto delete the torrent after 2.5 weeks and then just login to the site every few months to see the ratio and make sure I’m not missing a file. Very much set it and forget it.
Is this some sort of public tracker issue I'm too private trackers and Usenet only to understand?
You must Imagine Sisyphus a happy pirate
Maybe it should be named something you can't say on youtube
Where would someone avoid to not see F1 race streams live?
Maybe https://fmhy.net/video#live-tv-sports Or https://ppv.to/ Or maybe https://rentry.org/megathread-movies-and-tv#live-tv-sports
Hopefully one of those can help but not sure as I don't watch f1
Thanks! I'll give them a look!
This Apple TV deal has me fucking pissed - I just want a nice little Sky Sports torrent within a few hours of the race, is that too much to ask?
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weird to blame video form lol.
Popular video gets attention. Attention reaches company. Company reaches for lawyers. Lawyers reach for cease and decist forms.
Company worries about massive mainstream attention compared to being niche
Man you almost had it with the rhythm of technologic but you didn't complete the end with another 'it'.
You had one job.
Wait a njnite, is it really supposed to be 6 or 7?
My pass the popcorn account is older than my 20yo son.
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