Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I never said that and you're wildly missing my point. If the person running your site hasn't run things in a way that they can tank some news coverage, it was doomed from the start.

Take this very lemmy instance. The public facing load balancer they currently use is hosted in France. They aren't revealing anything beyond that and it's not something that can be found by anyone not involved with the systems administration side of things. The admins are careful to practice proper opsec as well, not revealing their home country.

You can find all sorts of writeups about countless less than legal sites and projects, both ones that survived and ones that died. Not a single dead one is dead because of attention. Most are dead because the people running it made some mistake that allowed authorities to find their real identity so they could be prosecuted. Or because of internal drama. Or rising costs, like myrient which is closing the end of this month.

If you're not using a VPN to visit PB.org from a non- problematic country, are you even trying?

Wouldn't this be solved by using a DNS server your country as no control over?

But anyway PirateBay is not recommended anymore.

Just fuckin with ya. Those are all valid gripes. I guess I got in on the scene way early through invites from friends and so I've hardly ever had to go through any interview process. I think the only place I "interviewed" was baconbits and it wasn't really an interview since I mostly just shared evidence of good ratio on other trackers with long-lived accounts. I've had an account in good standing on Cinemageddon for... 18 years as of next month. Getting over that initial hump made it pretty easy to get in with good standing, and most decent trackers aren't that hard to get good ratio on.