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Whenever thepiratebay goes down, it is a disaster for me to find anything online. The megathread is next to useless, taking me to all these crazy sites that don't have a torrent option. Instead, they have individual episode downloads of 600 episode TV series. And to access each individual episode, I have to click on a mirror that takes me elsewhere. Then, from that site, I have to click on something that takes me to another site. Then, I have to wait 10 seconds, then I have to confirm the download, then it asks me if I want to pay for premium, then it takes 30 minutes to download one episode.

I'm not actually sure what the community's goal is here. To me, it seems like the entire idea of piracy will go down if thepiratebay ever goes permanently down because this giant "community resource" we have is an utter cluster, with so much garbage shoved in it.

Outside of thepiratebay, how do you guys effectively perform any of the tasks one would want to do on a place like this?

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (14 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Imagine not using a VPN for torrent content and using that fact as a kind of gotcha...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use the money you save pirating software and movies to pay for a vpn to pirate them with.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

VPNs are really cheap

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet it would be as simple as changing your DNS server to bypass this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, all they need to do is change their DNS servers. Zero cost.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that some sort of ISP-level block?

Sounds like you need a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That or another DNS server

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It did that for me but I fixed it with a VPN (which you should be using anyway)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

All you need to do is change your DNS servers. It costs you nothing.

Google it. Or simply use NEXTDNS.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Why are you using your isp's DNS? Change it to something like 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9 or any number of others to bypass the Australian ISP DNS filtering

Though ideally you should be using a VPN instead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's only a DNS block in Australia, your ISP isn't routing you to it. There are benefits to using a bigger DNS provider like Cloudflare etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's blocked for me in Europe because of the sanctions against Russia, but I can easily access it using TOR browser. Might want to try that if you don't want to use a vpn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What about watchsomuch.to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try one of these

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