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The problem is that you're not downloading the files from the real TPB website, you are downloading them from some dodgy proxy site instead.
The main site address is at the bottom of this page if you scroll down... There's been many people recently downloading from dodgy proxies you should use a proper VPN really and then you can bypass as many blocks as you want. In all these years I've never once wanted to use a proxy site for TPB.
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I tried downloading from thepiratebay.org on the bottom. The problem is that I still fly FSX and there are no seeds (maybe 1-2 at the most) and My torrent downloader never even gets a download to start.
So, I have no options.
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Aug 16, 2022, 17:20 pm
(This post was last modified: Aug 16, 2022, 17:30 pm by RodneyYouPlonker. Edited 1 time in total.)
Having no seeds has got absolutely nothing to do with downloading from the real TPB site. The advantage of downloading from the real site is that you won't get shoddy files in your download which could potentially be dangerous for your computer. If there's no seeds then that's down to the uploader that posted the said torrent and has nothing to do with whether this is actually a site issue.
The original post was about downloading files from proxy sites which aren't anything to do with TPB or the people who run it officially. I already answered your post it's very simple just don't use those sites use the real one. If there's no seeds then download something else instead as this section is for site issues only.
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ok. Let me try once again....I went to the real site and since I'm unable to get any files to download, I can not tell if they will have the same problem as the proxy sites. I should have been more clear in my answer. I am aware that the number of seeds has nothing to do with TPB, I was just trying to say I could not check the files from the real site in order to see if what I described above would still be there, or if it had resolved.
I'm sorry if this might be the wrong section. This just looked like the closest one to my problem.
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Whatever you see on TPB proxy sites are just a mirror of the main site. The difference is that they add in bad files and that's what you complained about because you said you couldn't get those files to work properly. This is a bad sign that you shouldn't use those proxy mirrors of the real site because they can't be trusted. If you download from a proxy site then you are open to whatever kind of bad content that they actually add into your download and you do that at your own risk and it has nothing to do with the real TPB which is what we are talking about here. This is certainly nothing to do with if the pirate bay real site has an issue you are talking about some 3rd party proxy site where you shouldn't download from. Just get a VPN instead of trying to use proxies. I've been using a VPN now for years and I've never had these kind of problems because I don't go on shoddy proxy sites due to the VPN and I always download things just fine. If there's no seeds well then the torrents are probably dead so there's nothing you can do about that.
I wouldn't suggest that you use a proxy site for TPB as you simply don't know who or what is behind them. At least here there's various people who are running the real site who I have been speaking to for the last few years. I am just talking about your original post here and nothing else. I answered you at the first instance.
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Just make sure that when you use NordVPN that you select a server that is for P2P so you don't download or upload on a server that is more for web browsing. On Nord there's a stack of servers so just don't forget that when you download, make sure it's set correctly otherwise if you seed for ages you might annoy them if the bandwidth is high for a period of time.
