then there’s me, pirating for the last 20 years, but just a couple years ago switched from utorrent to qbit, still finds 99% of my stuff from 1337x, can’t be arsed to learn what trackers even are.
This was me until recently, but then 1337x started blocking some VPNs exit points and FENiX disappeared from it so I moved to a different (but similar) site. Also I’ve been sailing the high-seas for 3 decades instead of 2. All the rest is exactly the same.
Mind you, I used to watch my pirated material from a TV Media Box which basically showed a file browser I used to select files to play (which were shared over SMB from my home NAS), but 2 years ago I finally upgraded to modern media player interfaces and now have a Mini-PC with Kodi.
Started pirating in the napster days. I was an expert for a long time…
Then netflix was actually pretty good for a few years… i stopped pirating stuff… then alowly slowly the enshittification crept in… i got sick and tired and quit legal streaming one day.
Then i realized, i had no idea where to look for torrents anymore… demonoid? Piratebay?
i’m still using 1337x, but apparently thats for boomers?
My friends: “Yeah so uh… What torrent sites are safe today? Anything?”
Me: “Piratebay”
My friends: “What? Haven’t they been down for over a decade?”
Me: “Nope.”
then there’s me, pirating for the last 20 years, but just a couple years ago switched from utorrent to qbit, still finds 99% of my stuff from 1337x, can’t be arsed to learn what trackers even are.
This was me until recently, but then 1337x started blocking some VPNs exit points and FENiX disappeared from it so I moved to a different (but similar) site. Also I’ve been sailing the high-seas for 3 decades instead of 2. All the rest is exactly the same.
Mind you, I used to watch my pirated material from a TV Media Box which basically showed a file browser I used to select files to play (which were shared over SMB from my home NAS), but 2 years ago I finally upgraded to modern media player interfaces and now have a Mini-PC with Kodi.
Started pirating in the napster days. I was an expert for a long time…
Then netflix was actually pretty good for a few years… i stopped pirating stuff… then alowly slowly the enshittification crept in… i got sick and tired and quit legal streaming one day.
Then i realized, i had no idea where to look for torrents anymore… demonoid? Piratebay?
i’m still using 1337x, but apparently thats for boomers?
What are the cool kids using these days?
I also get stuff from there and inject trackers list took from github. If something gots peers then it must be good enough to download
I just thought it was interesting that someone could not know what a tracker was and also be, you know, using one.
Sitting on a mountain of complexities you don’t know anything about and probably don’t even know exists is basically modern computing in a nutshell.
My friends: “Yeah so uh… What torrent sites are safe today? Anything?”
Me: “Piratebay”
My friends: “What? Haven’t they been down for over a decade?”
Me: “Nope.”