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by fnqi8ckfek 541 days ago
I don't know. TPB seems less active than ever. I know that's not UK specific, but does not bode well nonetheless.
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Most piracy has moved to online streaming instead of distributing files for later offline viewing. Here's a site I found with 30 seconds of googling: https://westream.to/home - surprisingly polished and with much better UX than any legal service, because it doesn't require account creation or logging in. It just works. I clicked on Dune 2, waited for a moment, and it started playing. Picture quality is fairly muddy, but good enough for the average consumer. Under the hood, such sites might still use web-based torrent protocol to move the bytes around, but it's not visible to the end-user in any meaningful way.
This is a shame, because streaming is no replacement for good old files in your own storage.
Use 1337x or Torrentgalaxy not TPB.