This wiki is based of /r/Piracy's old wiki, with some adjustments.
Wait! Before you get to downloading stuff, make sure to at least follow some these recommendations:
- Use Firefox + uBlock Origin with one of these blocking modes (Blocks advertisements & malware)
- Use a reputable torrent client with a kill switch, such as qBittorrent (Allows torrenting).
- Set up a VPN such as ProtonVPN (Provides a sort of cover so that you ISP can't see what you're doing).
- Bind your torrent client to the VPN (Only allows torrenting when VPN is active).
- If you don't want to use a VPN (or you can't), then change your DNS settings to one of these great choices (Bypasses website access limitations and can provide some adblocking).
Related / Alternative Subreddits
List of related and alternative subreddits, either centered around piracy or around technologies that tie in with piracy
Tools / Useful Apps & Extensions / Web Services
Activation tools, useful applications, userscripts, download managers and helpers/tools and other miscellaneous
Mobile Apps & Cracked App Markets/Repos
Apps and resources for Android and iOS
Games
Sites for downloading games and ROMs
Movies & TV / Sports
Sites for streaming and downloading/torrenting Movies & TV and Sports
Anime
Sites for streaming and downloading/torrenting Anime movies and series.
Software Downloads
Sites for obtaining popular cracked software
Books / Comics / e-learning / Other Reading Material
Books, comics, manga, magazines, courses & tutorials
Music
Sites & apps for downloading music, video game soundtracks/scores
Private Trackers
Miscellaneous
General-Purpose Sites / Search Engines
General-purpose torrent sites. Torrent search engines/aggregators/DHT crawlers are listed to search within as many publicly listed torrents as possible to find rare content that cannot be found in any of the trackers listed in the above categories.
When using torrent search engines/DHT crawlers, they will list as many publicly available torrents as possible, unfiltered and unfettered in regards to viruses. Never use thse to search for software, but when searching for other media types, take some preliminary measures to avoid running malware.
Alternative piracy resources compilations
- /r/Piracy's Megathread backup and this one too.
- Awesome-piracy - its original reddit thread, their most updated fork
- Champagne
- FMHY
- Ripped guide
- Wotaku
Notes on software and sites to avoid:
- Try to avoid the pirate bay if you can (for software/games), it is filled to the brim with malware torrents. Skulled users are not trustworthy either.
- You can still use The Pirate Bay safely when searching for other media types (video, audio, etc.) if you follow some basic steps.
- uTorrent has bundled malware (a bitcoin miner) into the software in the past. The company developing this software is not trustworthy. Bittorrent (the torrent client) is owned by the same company.
- Bitlord (torrent client) is malware.
- Soda Stream is malware.
- Sidify/Allavsoft are scams - They are not able to download from spotify in any way, and instead record the streams or download from alternative platforms, like youtube.
- Peerblock is garbage and placebo software. Peerblock's blocklists are not accurate in any way and is not able to discern between the IP of a normal user and that of a copyright troll.
Credits to raddle user r4tch3t for starting and creating this and reddit user /u/Klappa4Me : for doing a lot of the heavy lifting.