The real one that peddles trashy spyware, scamware and toolbars for revenue?
To that, I went to the old hidden service url, and looked at what kind of ads was presented[1]. Did I see any spyware? No. Did I see any scamware? No. Any toolbars? No.
What I did find was sex ads of plenty. That makes sense. What other businesses would risk being accessory to copyright infringement, but an industry that often need to hide themselve (unjustly, but that's an other story)? An obvious observation from the trial is that any kind of trading with the TPB, be that bandwidth, hosting environment, electricity or anything whatsoever can be enough to land you in jail for accessory charges.
Conclusion. benologist comment was FUD, likely influenced by his own revenue source. However, if he provide a source for his statement, I am fully willing to change my opinion.
[1]: (first time I ever went and looked for ads)
1) Those big green buttons everywhere are some adware-slash-spyware-slash-shitware-hard-to-remove installer for iLivid which hijacks browsers, installs toolbars, etc: http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Nort...
2) The banking thing is a get rich quick scam: http://www.banker-secrets.com/
3) "Anonymous download" is another random installer.
4) The "play now" / "watch now" images are ads for some scabby online streaming video site that doesn't even have the advertised video, just a Google Adsense block over a different video.
5) Unseen, below the fold they recommend a torrent client that is "No Spyware, 100% Free 100% safe and Trusted", and pays for every install that kindly bundles even more shitware: "Nortan Security Scan", "Babylon Toolbar", "IWantThis", "DealPly", "BrowseForChange", a Firefox addon and a Chrome addon: http://www.bitlordapp.com/uninstall
6) Also unseen is a popup peddling some shitware called MacKeeper: http://www.cultofmac.com/170522/is-mackeeper-really-a-scam/
It doesn't take billions of pageviews a month riddled with this garbage to pay for servers or bandwidth unless they got locked into a multi-decade contract a decade ago and now operate on an enormous fleet of decade-old servers at decade-ago prices.
Conclusion: It's really easy to believe these guys are "fighting for you" because that's the image their PR machine has very carefully cultivated while exploiting everyone.
Disliking the download manager is indeed a fair point, but I don't see how its connected to which tor site is the official one. Both links to it.