• empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    11 months ago

    Considering TPB is garbage and shouldn’t be used anymore, I see this as an absolute win

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      11 months ago

      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.

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        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

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          11 months ago

          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.

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          11 months ago

          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.

      • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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        11 months ago

        And a myriad of fake ones piggybacking off the original URL to JavaScript your mouse clicks into link backs so it takes 8 clicks on a link to find the file is dead anyway.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      it works pretty well for me.

      what are some better alternatives?