Considering TPB is garbage and shouldn’t be used anymore, I see this as an absolute win
Ya, no pirate worth their salt would risk it at this point. It’s so infested with malware, with seemingly no moderation, and no meaningful original releases.
People me saying this but what malware is in mkv files? I don’t understand why anyone takes the risk of pirating software, that’s obviously all infected.
And TPB gets those MKVs seemingly faster than any other site I’ve seen and with a ui that’s easier to use due to not being modern garbage
If TPB tells you to download a malicious MKV file, it might be specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in your video player. For instance, VLC had a vulnerability in 2019: https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1901.html
The chances of an mkv or mp4 containing malware are not zero, but might as well be, imo. You’re much more likely to encounter moviefilename.mkv.exe or moviefilename.zip which contains an executable of some kind. Basically traps to take advantage of dumbasses. If you even sort of know what you’re doing using tpb for purely media is okay. Hypothetically, of course.
FWIW common libraries like ffmpeg and what not can contain bugs which video files could potentially abuse and exploit.
Is that a common risk? Probably not. But image libraries have been known to have such exploits.
And Kagi just lists it as the first result when searching for “tpb”. Hope they’re not jumping on the train any time soon
Funny thing is… you can still find it with duckduckgo, search.brave.com, qwant, searx…
plus even on google, you can click any of the first several links - including wikipedia - and the link is easy to find. sadly ‘reddit pirate bay’ is easy to find TPB link from but ‘lemmy pirate bay’ doesn’t have TPB link without more searching (and even more sad, the first result isn’t dbzer0 but a community on the ml instance)
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