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So I was browsing through ThePirateBay, and I see this warning page from Firefox:

"Reported Unwanted Software Page!

This web page at thepiratebay.org has been reported to contain unwanted software and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Unwanted software pages try to install software that can be deceptive and affect your system in unexpected ways."

I could not understand, was this part of the government's war against torrenting, a possible conspiracy by Mozilla to smear TPB?

Turns out, apparently not! I looked it up, and TorrentHound and TPB are exiting, the sites are shutting down, but before they go, they decided to clog the torrent pages up with malware. That's a damn shame!!

Possible malware warning:

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/13599744/Elvis_Presley_All_Time_Top_50_(2016)

 This is simply untrue.  Please post some reference links if you have them.

The real story:
 https://torrentfreak.com/chrome-and-firefox-block-pirate-bay-over-harmful-programs-160915/

 https://torrentfreak.com/torrenthound-shuts-down-another-big-torrent-site-bites-the-dust-160915/

 http://archive.is/SUUVg/image - there are no files to infect

The advertising networks that websites like the piratebay use, are always scraping the bottom of the barrel as it were. The only people willing to advertise on torrent sites are usually adult in nature and many malware distributors will pay for their booby-trapped adverts to be shown.

the last site where im used it for long time is kickass and kat.ph
now thepiratebay get problem with mozilla and chrome, i think now we must use Tor browser ::)

I don't understand the reason behind that. Shouldn't torrent sites attract corporate level advertisers? I mean I know Google Adsense won't pay a dime for them.

That's not going to reflect too well on Apple if they were all over Piratebay. I assume the scummier and scammier the advertiser, the higher they'll pay. You could either pay for a nice click on your website or pay for the possibility of breaking into someone's computer and draining them of their worldly wealth.

Those fag browsers are just trying to scare you. It is not going to shut down. You probably use firefox or chrome browser. I don't know about firefox but google owns chrome and they don't like you to visit those pirating websites. That's why they warn you. In the future they may even don't show the website for your own good. (!)

I am using Chrome for the past several years, and I never had any issues with any of the torrent sites. (I am using a VPN though). If things get worse, I will consider using the TOR browser. But it is really slow, and I rarely use it with the exception of logging in to online dark markets. Also, there are other anonymous options, such as the Invisible Internet Project (I2P).

Good job bro, you're about to get raided soon. Don't go around telling people you're using online dark markets on Bitcointalk, this is where DPR was put on a watchlist, remember?

I had happened over and over again and yet they're up any time. I like TPB ever since i've been with torrent. only the big companies such as microsoft don't like them though. people will always find ways to share, the p2p technology is here to stay so use it for your own benefit and use torrent.

Only big companies? Small individuals trying to make profit with their products don't like them either. Try to make a software product with all of that piracy. You have competition from microsoft, apple, government and even software pirates.

The best those programmers can do it put their bitcoin address in the software asking for donations, that worked well for WinZip  :D

ahahah I don't think he and DPR are on the same level tho. You mean DPR was talking here on bitcointalk or some kind of other forum when he was put on the watchlist?

Don't you know how he was caught? He put up his email address on here back in the day. He deleted it but someone quoted his reply and it was found by the FBI a few years later. Be careful out there, kids.

Tens of thousands of people use various dark markets every day. If the FBI want to detain all of them, then good luck with that. Being a libertarian, I don't like the government regulations, especially those related to personal choices. And one more thing. Dark markets can be used to purchase perfectly legal stuff -  such as bullion coins, prescription medicine.etc.

Thats site is one of the best site that where i can get movies or software that i can not seen to other site.. but looks like they are shutting down..
I think the problem is they are also sharing a lots of virus like malware people are download can be affected even you have antivirus..  that can give leads(earnings from a company) for those who are sharing malware. to push the victim to buy antivirus..

I think torrents era has passed. Too far advanced technology, you can now keep track of all those involved in the spread of pirated content. Especially thanks Windovs 10. We will pay for everything!

I don't think that's what happened, but, there are other ways they can trace you, that do not require any information about your account at all (ie time zones)

ThePirate bay is not shutting down mate for now I think but it will soon. It is illegal and is being pursued of course by law and later on I think their site will be shut down by the US government just like what happened to kickass.to. If they were to shut down though there will be another site that will provide us good torrent collection. It will also be pursued by law and so on and so forth.

The "illegality" of Piratebay is questionable. As such, peer-to-peer file-sharing is not illegal. It is the piratebay users, who upload/download copyrighted content. Piratebay is just a medium for doing this. Those who upload/download pirated content must be held accountable, and not those who run some website to help people in peer-to-peer file-sharing.

And in my opinion, downloading or uploading of pirated content is not a crime. The authorities may disagree, for obvious reasons.

It's a crime to upload/download pirated content in many countries, rightfully so. You can take a cab and refuse to pay, it doesn't mean it's not a crime. Someone offers a product or service for money, providing access to it for free is not a just thing to do. The creator on the other end of the line has to pay for food, rent. He/she cannot download food and rent from piratebay.

They have been after the pirate bay for over a decade. Only thing that changed since is more torrenting sites and more people torrenting. No one is closing the site down anytime soon. And as you say nothing would change if they managed to anyway.



Too soon to give up like that. Use linux, privacy tools, vote for pirate parties in your country, etc.


Creating artificial scarcity doesn't help either. Nor make sense in today's society. There are other ways to make money. And your comparison with the cab driver is flawed. Someone copying a movie doesn't deprive the makers of anything more than already spent unlike a physical goods service.

As well as the kickasstorrent has been shutted down by the authority but i still believe that the owner will remain on doing a duplicate of their website . And I know that there still thepiratebay on deepweb ;D

Please send me all your dollars because it's artificial scarcity anyway. Money is not scarce, it's just paper with print on it. You won't deprive yourself of anything when you send me your dollars.

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Both are a crime and should be a crime in capitalist society. I take it you are a communist because otherwise your argument doesn't make sense.

KickassTorrents was taken down, after the owner was arrested. Artem Vaulin, an Ukrainian citizen was the founder and owner of KickassTorrents. He was arrested in Poland, and reports indicate that he will be extradited to the US. Now I don't think that anyone will be able to put a clone of that site online, as the only person capable of doing that is currently imprisoned.

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Please god, if you exist let it rain brain from above.

shutdown piratebay was good recently i download a software at piratebay and then i get viruses in my pc  :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

i got download at piratebay site and i got malware inside my pc so maybe its good to shut it down to prevent more of the people to get viruses

Who told you to download unverified torrents? First you need to check the user comments and the user reviews. If the file actually contains trojans or spyware, then usually the users will flag it in a matter of hours. I don't know much about PirateBay, but in 1337x, there was an option to download only the verified torrents.

I downloaded a lot on piratebay but I didn't get any malware. I have protection on my pc and make sure to scan everything I downloaded on the internet before using it. I don't know how many times this site has been shutdown already, but it seems another torrent site will re-appear to replace it. It might re-appear on the dark web and fully operational and you can still downloaded videos, audios, e-books, etc.. So I think they are not really shutting it down after all.

There is a very big competition in this matter and as they say, a holy place, there is no empty. A lot of resources with available free content on the network is always there. Some close, copies appear.

Your virus won't be from the Pirate Bay, it'll be from seeders.  This is a risk which everyone has to take if they want to pirate anything.  Most people are perfectly fine.

been downloading from them since time but never get to have viruses even when i'm using windows. just chose the ones that got reputation like eztv or ergt uploaders. don't install anything from any uploads too.

Piratebay is the same, you can check who uploaded every torrent and chose only verified files. 
There is also comment section where people post warnings if the file is infected or torrent is fake.
If torrent is uploaded by anonymous/unknown uploader and there is zero comments then use you common sense.
The best idea is to open the file in sandobox environment.

Still working, still kickin'

Like with anything we must be on our toes when we download things for the internet especially when it is something in such websites that don't check what kind of content is being uploaded to their sites.

I disagree with it since even before while they are still operating malwares and other viruses are already on their system. Those viruses and malwares are being used by the site so they can create automatic traffic for adult product advertisements. If you notice by just clicking a menu there will be many pop-outs that will display adult product advertisements.

The PirateBay is working great the .org domain. Make sure to use a VPN if you fear for your privacy. In my country anyone who is caught downloading illegal torrents can go to jail. The Pirate Bay was attacked many times and was back after a few days always. I don't think it can be shut down for good.

No matter how the governments all over the world try to restrict them it will come back stronger than ever,only technical issues can cause the down time and the often domain blockage will give some problems to newbies and everyone knows how to bypass all those.The tor site is always working .Long live TPB.

This is an old topic either way since you said that the site uses viruses and malwares then it is a wrong information that you gathered somewhere.The site wont inflict any malwares or viruses but if you download a file from an unverified source expect some viruses other than that it is fine to download as long as you hide your IP.

I am also downloading through torrents for the last 10 years or so. I never had any issues with trojans / spyware, even when I was not using any anti-virus software (now I am using Kaspersky).

Going to be doubting that the TPB is going to be shutting down due to them being on the top charts for people using their index in order to find torrents to download music, games, movies, and so on and so forth. While I don't know their financial situation at the moment, I don't think they're going to be doing terrible just based on the pure fact of the ads on the site itself.

I do understand that these ads don't pay much, but I'd think with all the people that use these sites they'd be able to make some money off of people using the site with the ads and donating money in order to use the great service that TPB has setup.

Please, if you're ever going to make such an outrageous claim like this I'd recommend going ahead and finding some reference links from good reputable torrent news sources such as TorrentFreak.

You had no issues for that exact reason: you had no good anti-virus software, so you didn't even know what trojans you had.
A good trojan will not show itself like those crappy ones made by kids, that change your desktop or disable task manager. It will track your activity and send logs to whoever made it and replicate itself onto your mobile devices to infect other computers.
I'm not denying the possibility that you were lucky and really never caught anything. I used to download games and found some infected copies back in the day, but usually these were quickly tagged by the community and had very few seeds.
That said, torrents are great and I fully support them. Libraries existed in the ancient times and people always saw the need to share knowledge. Maybe not always, we had the Dark Ages...

This is probably not as relevant anymore but I got a warning from my ISP that said I got a copyright strike for downloading. They're really getting strict with torrenting in the USA, stay safe, use a VPN.

Even the VPNs are not 100% anonymous. In the United States, there were reports of law enforcement agencies seeking IP logs from VPN providers. If you are using a VPN, then use one which is based in Russia or China.