Pirate Bays Proxy - 2019 Repack

If you are reading this, chances are you tried to click your bookmark for The Pirate Bay (TPB) today. Instead of the familiar black and white logo, you were probably met with a stark, grey screen: "This site has been blocked by your ISP."

Stay safe out there. Check your downloads, verify the uploader's skull, and never, ever download a .exe file from a movie torrent. This content is for informational and archival purposes regarding internet censorship trends in 2019. Torrenting copyrighted material without permission is illegal in most jurisdictions.

Rightsholders have wised up. Instead of just suing The Pirate Bay itself, they are now aggressively targeting proxy services under copyright law (specifically the Copyright Directive in the EU). Over the last six months, we have seen massive "proxy busts" where domains like thepiratebay.rocks or piratebay.live get seized and redirected to anti-piracy notices within 48 hours of launching. pirate bays proxy 2019

Malicious proxies are rampant. Because the official site is hard to reach, fake proxies have popped up that look identical to TPB but inject their own bitcoin miners into your CPU or replace torrent files with ransomware.

October 21, 2019

2019 is the year of the setup cost. Proxies are no longer the convenient shortcut they used to be. If you want stability, spend 10 minutes setting up Tor Browser (free) or invest in a VPN that supports obfuscated servers. The days of clicking a single link and sailing the seas are, sadly, behind us.

This is uniquely 2019. Because websites get blocked instantly, the underground has moved to encrypted messaging. Several Telegram bots now act as "proxy finders." You message the bot, it pings a dozen proxy domains, and sends you back the one that is currently online. It’s clunky, but it works. If you are reading this, chances are you

Despite being raided, sold, resurrected, and blocked by virtually every major Internet Service Provider from London to Sydney, The Pirate Bay refuses to die. But as the blocks get more sophisticated (looking at you, UK’s High Court and Australia’s Federal Court), the methods to bypass them have become the new normal.