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why is thepiratebay discouraged? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by Quail4789@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I'm seeing thepiratebay org is discouraged because it has lots of viruses due to lack of moderation. I was wondering how could an mp4 or an mkv etc. could be harmful? Are people talking about executable stuff?

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[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

mkv is not a file archive format.

It's a media container format. Like mp4.

Both can include [file] resources, but that's different from a file archive having and extracting to files.