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And now Bezos is trying to insert ads everywhere

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You know, what you can not find on EBay you can find on PBay. Or whatever warez site you prefer.
- Mandatory "don't use piratebay" comment
  
  I haven't been into the pirating scene for a few years, last time I was active pirate bay was the best. why not use it anymore?
  
  Pretty much everything on there is monitored by the rights holders and anything that's not is loaded with malware. L337 or torrent leech is what you want these days, for the mainstream stuff. TL requires invites but they're easy enough to get and it's got pretty much all the mainstream TV, movies, and software. If you want more niche stuff you'd want to look around a bit more, though.
  
  "The Pirate Bay / TPB - Site is no longer moderated, so its very risky for software and games" source
  
  https://www.techspot.com/news/99242-pirate-bay-restores-new-user-registrations-twist.html
  Spud17, moderator of ThePirateBay says you're wrong.
  
  I say the time of Torents is OVER. Today Streaming-Warez-Sites are the Kick.
  
  I wouldn't use a pirate streaming site over torrenting even if I was getting paid to do so lol the releases generally have terrible bitrates and low picture quality, likely because they're the smallest files the site uploaders could find. They're convenient if you can't afford a VPN and don't care about file quality when it comes to movies and shows, but I prefer being able to select a high quality file with good encoding, quality compression (265, AV1), and known high quality uploaders, like UTR and QxR. That's only possible through torrenting the file or getting it through Usenet.
  
  Usenet > *
  
  Nope
  Those Times where Warez-Streaming-Sites had low quality are long gone. While 4k=3840 releases are rare, we have mostly 1920 nowadays with some 1280 in-between, often Bluray- or Streaming-Rips without re-encoding, at least if the source was H264/H265. Older MPEG2/4 though is still often recoded. You can easily re-encode an old MPEG2-Bluray from 20Gig to H265 4Gig without visibly loss. With more modern Codecs the Data is usually "re-containered" which means the Content itself isn't changed, only the Encryption and Container are changed.
  Overall Streamingz-Sites are pretty good nowadays, Amazon and Netflix take up to one minute to switch to high Bitrate quality for me. With Warez-Sites you have to wait 3-5 seconds but then it immediately starts at Max Quality and NEVER at lower quality. And their Search actually works great and is well organized and everything reacts so much faster because they reduce the eye candy. They also often have bookmarks - which don't work as good as commercial providers but good enough.
  I can only have access to Amazon, Netflix, Joyn and Public Television Media Centres so for other providers your mileage may vary.
  
  Meh. I still prefer Stremio and my custom configured Jackett setup for searching for torrents. Just has more features and more control. I've never encountered a pirate streaming site with even half the features Stremio has. I will grant you that anime streaming sites have gotten a lot better over the years, but I still don't trust general pirate streaming sites. It's great to hear they got better though. Easier acess to media is always a good thing.
  
  Torrents of all kinds can be easily tracked and its users be sued because they do not only consume but also distribute.
  One-Click-Hosters and Streamingz-Sites on the other side are hard to track and their users don't distribute.
  At least by German Law it is mostly "we only care about distribution, not consumption". The later has an estimated damage of $1 per case, that is not even petty crime. Distribution on the other hand often is handled at $1000/case... I think there was not a single case of a Streamingz-User being prosecuted but already millions of Torrent-Users.
  
  What's wrong with pirate bay? I've been using it for years with no problems
  
  Larger % of DMCA tracked stuff than other sites. Set your VPN to a Caribbean country and yo ho ho no worries matey
  
  I guess I win. I already am in the Caribbean. Call me Captain Jack Sparrow I guess.
  
  You’re the worst lunatic I’ve ever heard of
  
  Well, you have heard of me.
  And now so have the DMCA goons. Blimey.
  
  What are they gonna do, send a British Navy ship with a letter of marque? Yo ho ho matey
  
  Indeed. Latinos and Eastern Europeans have a predilection towards disliking intellectual property laws. And I happen to be an Eastern European living in Latin America.
  
  Well, Pirate Bay is essentially the defacto website someone thinks of when they hear "This person pirates content." Because of this, game devs, Hollywood execs, etc end up putting out detectable torrents/illegitimate files onto this most popular pirating source.
  
  "The Pirate Bay / TPB - Site is no longer moderated, so its very risky for software and games" source
  
  TPB is still moderated. They just had news this year about reopening registrations.
  
  Then don't download software and games

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Nope