Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed.

I’m SUPER curious of the story behind what happened. Did the uploader take it down? 1337? Why?

EDIT: The movie was Lady Ballers 2023 (wasn’t sure if I was allowed to say) I did a little more research, and I think the copy the uploader put out was YTS but I don’t think they were affiliated with them. Maybe YTS told them to take it down? The movie is on their (YTS/YIFY’s) website.

  • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Are you using something else? I’m on IPT, never had any issues, but I’m willing to move.

    • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      No I got a better job after that and pretty much only pirate popular stuff that shows on 1337x, TPB, or TorrentGalaxy. I used to pirate mostly software but because of the increasing risk of ransomware and FUD rootkit botnets, I’d rather just pay $30 for it. I’ll still pirate something and run it in a VM if I /really/ need to and it’s $1,000 and I’m going to use it 5 times, but I usually just buy software now.

      I’ll probably get a seedbox setup and run Plex for media soon, in which case I’ll just use open trackers or find some non-IPT private tracker.

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, I don’t pirate software, but I’d prefer to stick to private trackers, even though i’m tempted to look at stuff like radarr and sonarr that use public trackers too, just for convenience.

        • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          The only difference between public and private trackers is availability and quality. You should have a VPN always enabled (through the closest locale if you like, for speed) or a seedbox which is even better than a VPN. If public trackers have what you want, there’s zero reason not to use them.

          When I was back on IPT, I found one of the top software uploaders binding a fully undetectable backdoor downloader to his downloads. Never in the installer or anything, always bound to the main software file and could be unbound after install and activation. Always showed 0/50 on virustotal etc. Since I was somewhat into malware analysis at the time, I tried to do some analysis on it but of course it would detect my analysis of it and just not run. Whereas if I ran the software on an old PC, it would do it’s thing and I could detect it after the fact, but still not get very far.

          I used a lot of software from that guy previously. Who knows what keys to the kingdom he has.