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The old, full-view version of the megathread has moved to this page for those who are more comfortable with it, but is now deprecated. Only this page will receive updates.
Alternative megathread here: https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy/blob/master/readme.md. Reddit thread of original announcement.
Notes on software and sites to avoid:
Avoid the pirate bay, it is filled to the brim with malware torrents. Skulled users are not trustworthy either.
- If you are going to use the pirate bay, never use it for software, but otherwise you'll want to take preliminary steps to avoid malware when browsing for other types of media (video, audio, etc.). Guide.
uTorrent has bundled malware (a bitcoin miner) into the software in the past. The company developing this software is not trustworthy. Bittorrent (the torrent client) is owned by the same company.
Peerblock is garbage and placebo software. If you were to assume that their IP block lists are accurate, it still would not help to curb copyright complaints against you. Other peers in the swarm do not need to be connected to you in order to see your IP. Your IP will be visible regardless and if found in a torrent swarm, it's liable to be logged and reported.
If you have any critique or suggestions you would like to see added to the Megathread, or would like to be granted contribution privileges, send us a mod mail here.
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► Privacy and Security
VPNs, adblockers, and useful browser extensions
► Apps / Tools
Activation tools, torrent clients, mobile apps, download managers and helpers/tools and other miscellaneous
► Movies & TV
Sites for streaming and downloading/torrenting Movies & TV and Sports
► Software Downloads
Sites for obtaining popular software
► Books / Comics / e-learning / Other Reading Material
Books, comics, manga, magazines, courses & tutorials
► Games
Sites for downloading games and ROMs
► Music
Sites & apps for downloading music, video game soundtracks/scores
► Porn
Pirate porn sites
► General-Purpose Sites / Torrent Search Engines
General-purpose torrent sites. Torrent search engines/DHT crawlers are listed to search within as many publicly listed torrents as possible to find rare content that cannot be found in any of the trackers listed in the above categories.
When using torrent search engines/DHT crawlers, they will list as many publicly available torrents as possible, unfiltered and unfettered in regards to viruses. Never use thse to search for software, but when searching for other media types, take some preliminary measures to avoid running malware.
► Miscellaneous
Misc. websites:
VirusTotal.com - Scans files and URLs with various anti-virus engines
Squawkr.io - Get notified when a movie releases. You can also set parameters such as resolution
subscene.com - multinlingual subtitles for movies/series
addic7ed.com - multinlingual subtitles for movies/series
Free Premium Leechers List - maintained by u/H1dd3nM1nd
Scene / p2p tracer websites:
These are sites that track Scene releases. They serve strictly as notice boards and do not offer downloads to any of the content posted.
predb.me - Tracer for Scene releases
predb.ovh - Tracer for Scene releases. Very useful search operators to filter results. Release group:
@team group_nameto find out if a certain group is Scene or not; category:@cat games,@cat tv,@cat tv-HD,@cat tv-HD-x264pre.c-burns.co.uk/pre.php - Tracer for Scene releases
[P2P] pre.c-burns.co.uk/p2ptrace.php - Tracer for P2P releases
Microsoft stuff:
[Microsoft .iso DDLs] - tb.rg-adguard.net/index.php - web interface for Microsoft's techbench site. Windows 8.1+ / Office 2013+.
[Microsoft .iso DDLs] - tb.rg-adguard.net/products.html - Latest Microsoft Products Dump (latest releases)
[Microsoft .iso DDLs] - Theeye - 2.7 TB back up of MSDN dump. Has lots of hard to find .isos.
Premium Links from file hosts
Some DDL sites may only offer downloads through premium links, meaning the download will be available through a file host which would lock the download unless you paid a subscription to said file host. The prices can be a bit extravagant, especially when you consider that many DDL sites may use different file hosts, so it would not be feasible to pay for multiple of these subscriptions.
To get around this, you can try free premium leech generators or pay for a debrid service, such as real debrid, premiumize, all debrid, etc. which supports downloading from a large list of file hosts, torrents, etc. as an alternative. They essentially act as a middleman, meaning they download the file for you (an automated process), then you download from them. Services like these can be as cheap as 3 USD a month, which can be considered a good tradeoff given the large amount of file hosts they offer downloading from, compared to file host subscription each costing upwards of 10 USD a month.
Credits to /u/Klappa4Me for doing a lot of the heavy lifting.