I used to torrent things back in highschool until Comcast sent my parents a couple emails, one from torrenting Fable another from Jay-Z's American Gangster (which I still love to this day). So I get how it works and what I need.

But I just got a VPN and now I'm ready to get back into it. Before I was on a Mac and I used Transmission. Is that still a good client to use on Windows? Or are there other ones I should use instead? Is 🏴‍☠️bay a safe place for magnets, or somewhere else? My computer sucks so I won't be going after new games, just older ones and some shows that aren't streaming but I want to checkout.

And am I really that safe using a VPN? Like untraceable, no emails or letters from my ISP for downloading shit?

  • darkcalling [comrade/them,she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Piratebay is not safe for software. Even trusted users distribute malware there.

    For videos it's not that great either unless what you want was released in 2015 and has been seeded continuously since then.

    Check this: https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/index

    As to sites 1337x and rarbg are best for such content. (make sure you spell those right as there are typosquatter domains a number/letter off that give out malware).

    Rutracker (dot org, there's a dot ru as well which I still don't know the reasoning behind but it's not as good) tends to have the best stuff for music albums. For software read, read, read up on that linked subreddit wiki about what is and isn't trusted and safe and even then beware, the threat landscape is much, much worse, far more people bundling malware these days than back then.