Fwiw, piratebay continues to be the -to my knowledge- biggest public tracker out there, with basically every media production available.

And I think that was his point. They may ruin some people's life's... but aside from that, they achieve nothing.

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erkt 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Just visited two nights ago and was pleasantly surprised to see domains active with fresh magnets. The people are returning to nature.

	▲	dmbche 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It never stopped!

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ghostly_s 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> basically every media production available.

not sure why you made this claim as its not at all germane to the discussion but this isn't even remotely true.

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lurk2 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> piratebay continues to be the -to my knowledge- biggest public tracker out there

It has been compromised for more than a decade. The site is impossible to navigate without an adblocker due to malicious redirect ads and most of the major torrents are being monitored by rights management companies who will notify the user’s ISP of suspected infringement.

	▲	creatonez 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		All public torrents are monitored by the movie studios, that has nothing to do with how The Pirate Bay is run. Users can just hop jurisdictions with a VPN and use these public torrents without ever getting any complaint letters.

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nalekberov 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Those are just crappy replicas of 'The Pirate Bay'. Full of annoying junk ads. 1337x is probably the biggest public tracker.

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bpavuk 6 hours ago | parent [-]

and even 1337x is too annoying to use at times compared to RuTracker

	▲	nalekberov 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		yeah, rutracker is to my knowledge the biggest and "cleanest" semi-public tracker.