Basically I want to download a serie in a specific language and absolutely nowhere I can find it and recently I saw that the serie is available in the language I want in The Pirate’s Bay but I know the bad reputation of the site and I have never used it.
I ask if it can be considered “safe” in quotes because at least in this specific case the files are not executable, they are only .mkv and in fact I don’t even plan to play them on my PC, I plan to play them on a computer I use as a media center that has no internet access (and it’s Linux). And although this setup should be considered “safe” enough, the question itself makes me curious.
In the torrent there is only the chapters of the serie and nothing else, or so it seems, I would analyze the files in VirusTotal before playing them but each chapter weighs more than 1GB (they are in 1080p and last more than 40 minutes) and VirusTotal does not allow to upload files of a certain weight.
I am sorry for the generic question about a site with a bad reputation, but although according to my knowledge everything should be fine, there are always things that one does not consider or go unnoticed due to ignorance or lack of knowledge.
I only recently stopped using it. And a lot of content on the internet, expecially ones for download use rar part files to split it up and host freely.
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Not necessarily. For example, I know RAR is a bit out of style, but WinRAR just this week had some articles about malware lurking in otherwise non-executable files
There is no such thing as ‘safe’ user-generated content, only a spectrum of more or less safe content.
Who the actual fuck still uses winrar?
Enough people that the dude is still actively supporting and updating it for new OS versions. The RAR is unkillable.
I only recently stopped using it. And a lot of content on the internet, expecially ones for download use rar part files to split it up and host freely.
You can just use 7zip tho