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by Cider9986 8 days ago
What do you mean?
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As the age verification and the dodgy businesses around them become more widespread, people will find the friction and risk of paying for "legitimate" access on par with pirating, and to boot, the later doesn't cost money.

Remember, people use these services largely for convince more than qualms with paying for multinationals. So once they create friction, off we go to the bays again in large masses.

Sites like TPB don't try to verify your age.
TPB is the worst piracy site now by the way. It's full of fake uploads should never be used. There are many others with better curation.
I hear that often but I have yet to find any issues with it.

Maybe I’m too niche or not niche enough to run into issues. I also never download software from any site like this so maybe that’s it.

Even so, have a look around, there are better sites.