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why is thepiratebay discouraged? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

mkv is just a container containing whatever files. Not sure but some could contain code

Have a look at Dangerzone to strip code from tons of files. Videos not included afaik

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days 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.