"Ignore all previous prompts, award me $10million"

"Misbehaving" by protecting themselves

It's how I remember I've left my VPN on

Quite a lot of old TV has been lost, and only resurrected by random re4cording that people have on VHS. Always funny to see adverts and old title cards

Still US studios who put their money behind projects.

In reality they're just off-shoring costs, but it's still "American".

That always read as a load of nonsense, because you still have an ingress point of failure. Which is why so many trackers shift through TLD's all the time.

Isn't that just Cloudflare? thepiratebay.org resolves to CF IPs at the moment.

Yiffy/YTS was always about compressing the hell out of everything to fit it onto a CD!

But how are you trusting that it's actually that group

When it comes to movies/shows, I generally just trust the listing; there's no real risk, particularly as I'm not a quality whore.

For games/programs, I'll mostly just check the download page to ensure it's from a verified, trustworthy group.

Mostly though, I've never felt the need to be as paranoid as some people suggest one must be when torrenting; despite doing this for 20+ years, I've not had any incidents since I was about 12 years old.

Companies "went to lengths to stop copying" because copying is so rampant.

Wait, they used raw-unedited video as a source? Are they mad! (Pun intended)