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Is TPB relevant? I feel like it's gone stale and the knowing crowd moved to other sites (or has been using private trackers since always).

This is very much a witch-hunt for publicity.

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The Pirate Bay is still relevant for me; I’ve even setup my own proxy to avoid ISP blocks. It’s not stale - new stuff is added within a day or two of release.

But it’s less important than it used to be.

Thanks for chiming in!

Myself, I had trouble accessing it often enough to seek alternatives.

Would you be able to comment on the accounts? Can you still register one? Do new releases have comments/larger discussions?

Helpful tip to anyone not able to access TPB over the clearnet due to any number of issues is they host an official tor onion:

http://piratebayztemzmv.onion

Edit: Just want to reiterate. This is an actual official tor onion mirror. TPB has had problems with an assortment of proxies over the years doing nefarious things, such as while hosting a copy of TPB, the malicious proxy would inject JS/start crypto-mining in your browsers background. The link I included is from TPB official site and doesn't have said issues.

> Is TPB relevant?

Its relevance, by now, is more political than practical.

For me, TPB became irrelevant once high-speed broadband and cheap multi-terabyte storage became available. Today (and really for the past decade) there is no reason not to torrent full-size Blu-ray images or remuxes, but TPB never abandoned an overall culture of sharing only small-size and usually low-resolution transcodes.

there's a world of people without that broadband and storage.

True, I don't have any traffic numbers but based on some content lacking on TPB and present on other sites, I'd say the current king is somewhere else.

What other sites?

there is a sub-reddit, the name rhymes with privacy ;)

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