please, god, stop talking about where you do piracy on public forums. stop talking about specific sites. don’t name services. don’t link links. don’t respond to shutdowns with recommendations on where to go next. stop airing this out publicly. you are not shepherding the masses. you are plattering cash for salivating IP lawyers if you do literally anything other than reply ‘DMs’ when talking publicly about anything that is even in a light-gray area.
the worst type of posting, all time, is when a piracy site is shut down and all of the absolute lemmings (not an insult I usually like to use!) immediately decide to pile into the thread of the news post reporting this and go “🙏 thank GOD they didn’t get” and then practically post the entire WHOIS lookup for their favorite service alongside the specific products they love to consume on there with an appended “like where else would I watch [MEDIA PROPERTY] 😭”
look. I get it 
we grew up in the panopticon. chronic oversharing online is, IMO, the most prominent feature that gaps millenials and gen Z.
still, you fucking snitch-addicted neuron beasts need to learn discretion! you are skirting the law! your posts are public! you know what I would do if I was a corporate copyright lawyer? hitch a fucking RSS feed to every single news post about a piracy site shutdown and watch as hundreds of people tell on themselves for, what I assume, comes down to:
my site not mentioned in comments must confirm others share qualia with me
heh, theyre using that site? lmao, get with the program (my site)
ah, it seems the users of this service are lost sheep, allow me to recommend my own illicit service so they shall find their way
and compile the services they VOLUNTEER UP TO THE CHOPPING BLOCK FOR THE NEXT DOSSIER BECAUSE THE VERY CONCEPT OF PRIVACY AND DISCRETION HAS BEEN SKINNER-BOXXED OUT OF PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO EVEN REDIRECT THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS TO DMs BECAUSE THEY ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING BEFORE OTHER PEOPLE SAY IT! THEY HAVE TO CAPTURE THE ZEITGEIST! THEY HAVE TO BE TAPPED IN! THEY HAVE TO LET OTHERS KNOW THEY ARE TAPPED IN! THEY REQUIRE IMMEDIATE UNINTERRUPTED FEEDBACK ON EVERYTHING! EVEN WHEN THEY ARE SKIRTING THE LAW!
Do you think poor ip lawyers don’t know rutracker exists? For 20 years?
Sites closing is result of reaching jurisdiction, not absence of information
Yeah like it takes 5 seconds to find the top public torrent trackers everyone uses and many of them have been going for a very long time. They are aware of all the private sites too and have issued takedown requests to them in the past. Like how you can’t upload any Harry Potter stuff (ick) to the big private eBook trackers because Rowling’s lawyers went after them. But that was like 10 years ago and the sites are still running.
Edit: misremembered Rowling on the list but there’s still a handful.
There is legit thingy when like someone talks to millions, like if joe rogan or whoever mentioned them, that would light the fire under all lawyers asses. but small forums with hundreds of people are legit smaller than trackers themselves
shoulda added the disclaimer that I’m mainly talking about third-rate sites, like when an anime streaming service goes down and 50 more people pop up to recommend the new ones in the scene in the comments, like, ones that fold at the hint of a C&D
I’m in this post and I don’t like it 😔
while dry snitching is a negative, I think you are correct.