Ya, no pirate worth their salt would risk it at this point. It's so infested with malware, with seemingly no moderation, and no meaningful original releases.

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

People me saying this but what malware is in mkv files? I don’t understand why anyone takes the risk of pirating software, that’s obviously all infected.

And TPB gets those MKVs seemingly faster than any other site I’ve seen and with a ui that’s easier to use due to not being modern garbage

[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

FWIW common libraries like ffmpeg and what not can contain bugs which video files could potentially abuse and exploit.

Is that a common risk? Probably not. But image libraries have been known to have such exploits.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fun thing is that it's basically unquantifiable how large the risk is. We only know about vulnerabilities after we find them!

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You want dat zero day shizzle, homie

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Isnt there a popular PS2 hack method which is basically using a broken video?

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

If TPB tells you to download a malicious MKV file, it might be specially crafted to exploit a vulnerability in your video player. For instance, VLC had a vulnerability in 2019: https://www.videolan.org/security/sa1901.html

[–] Ellie_The_Nurse@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, of course! Because we’re all using… 👀

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah! We're all using that great platform! It's called...

[–] Pixelologist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

https://rentry.co/megathread

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

And a myriad of fake ones piggybacking off the original URL to JavaScript your mouse clicks into link backs so it takes 8 clicks on a link to find the file is dead anyway.