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Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's for multimedia content, it's safe, I guess. I have been downloading movies and series from that page for 5 years, and I have never had any security problems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Good to know! I know it's stupid and not at all the case, but I had read about a virus that ran on an old version of Windows when you open a file because Windows needed to compile the file to open it and the exploit took advantage of a vulnerability in that compiler to rescale to admin permissions, and I think about that when downloaded this serie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can hide malware in EXIF metadata.
Just let common sense and be always aware of abnormal device behavior.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There has also been a number of malwares targeted at codec decoders, VLC was at one time a big target, not sure that is true now a days though