[IlikeKitties]

Can you please reconsider using TOR for piracy? It strains the Tor Network and makes life harder for exit node providers. The Tor Project has advised against it as well[0]. There are many cheap VPN Providers that allow port forwarding and will give you an even better torrenting experience.

Using the Tor-Browser to get the links on ThePirateBay et. al. is of course fine, torrenting the content though is where it becomes a problem.

[0] https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/t...

[voidUpdate]

I don't torrent through tor, I just use it to get the links. I've found that if I use TPB on the normal internet, my ISP (or someone who can see my connections) seems to be poisoning the results, since all my torrents result in a 1.89gb executable file that I'm sure as hell not opening. Getting the links through tor doesn't have the same issue, and then I download them over the normal internet, and everything works fine

[OptionOfT]

There is an uptick of isos and exes masqueraded to look like episodes of popular shows.

[IlikeKitties]

Can you share the magnet link that they send you and maybe the name of your ISP? I'd be super interested in analysing this!

[meindnoch]

Impossible. How would your ISP (or VPN provider or anyone) be MITMing the TLS connection to TPB?

[gs17]

> 1.89gb executable file

Add me to the list of people curious about this. It feels more like some sort of bug than a real attack, it would be odd to use such a huge file for every torrent.

[bigmadshoe]

If you're connecting through a VPN there is no way for your ISP to know that you're using TPB or any other website.

[hombre_fatal]

On the other hand, the system would be doomed if it relied on 1:1 message board scolding the few good actors to be viable.