Since the big sites like https://fmhy.net/ are going to get mentioned I’ll just post my current bookmarks that I actually visit and useful software.

Can see the sidebar of my emulation community for a bunch of treats but the two mains are:

Retro gaming: https://r-roms.github.io/

For pre-patched game hacks and fan translations see: https://retrogametalk.com/repo/

I’m mostly direct downloading these days, but if you torrent learn how to open a port so you’re connectable. Look up “qbittorrent port forwarding guide” for example there’s a billion guides of there saying the same thing. If you’re American or some place that is aggressive against piracy be sure to also look up how to properly use a VPN with torrents so you don’t accidentally leak your IP during a connection hiccup. It happens but you can prevent it. If you happen to be Canadian just change to a pro pirate reseller ISP (Park Power and Teksavvy locally) and freely ignore the funny letters without wasting money on a VPN subscription.

https://tongkl.com/qbittorrent-port-forwarding-guide/

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+port+forward+router&ia=web

For Direct Download (DDL) I like to use a Download Manager for multi part downloads especially like:

https://board.jdownloader.org/showthread.php?t=54725

DDL/Torrents for gaming:

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/ - They have an English sub-forum, and I find them the best resource for pirating games as a Linux user especially. Mainly because the uploads aren’t bundled into some damnable Windows installer like Fitgirl or DODI. They’re just a plain old 7z archive on the game files. You just add the game exe directly into whatever Proton/WINE front-end you prefer like Lutris, Faugus Launcher, etc and play.

https://dodi-repacks.site/ - I still use them sometimes, high community trust factor.

https://fitgirl-repacks.site/ - Also trust worthy, but their installers don’t play nice with WINE. Good for Windows users…still kinda dumb long install times for very little in bandwidth savings in return IMO.

Books:

https://annas-archive.gl/

https://z-library.sk/

For movies and TV look into Stremio and a debrid service. Basically a big cloud server that caches any media torrent people add to it and then you get direct download streams which are very reliable generally. No buffering even on 4K HDR Bluray rips so long as you have fast enough download bandwidth.

Guide for beginners: https://guides.viren070.me/stremio

https://www.stremio.com/

Debrid services I like:

https://www.premiumize.me/account - more expensive combo deal. It’s debrid, vpn, cloud storage, and a few other things all in one.

https://alldebrid.com/ - cheaper, only debrid and has free trial.

https://stremio-addons.net/addons - use these to add debrid service and more to Stremio.

AIO > Torrentio IMO: https://stremio-addons.net/addons/aiostreams

Anime torrents: http://www.nyaa.si/

Then my fave all in one site for everything (especially music) I use:

https://rutracker.org/forum/index.php

Annoyingly russian yes but use an auto website translator browser extension and make an account. It’s a gigantic traditional bulletin board piracy forum that’s very active, very old (2004), well moderated, and labyrinthine. Has everything that exists under the Sun on there. Even the cracked Linux versions of some specific paid software like Davinci Resolve Studio. It’s English friendly for the actual content you can find, almost all posts will include the English versions of stuff if it exists. You can’t post comments in English however with a few curt exceptions, just check the Rules post.

Nice try fbi

fmhy.net is very noob friendly, it’s a collection of all sorts of sources for pirated content that are considered safe to use (sometimes with an asterisk - would be mentioned to use VPN or adblock, for instance). If you see a star next to a resource - the maintainers of the list consider it one of the best at the moment.

Which adblock, which VPN? privacyguides.org for all of that.

Which torrent client? qBittorent - in advanced settings find network interface and set it to your VPN (if you have to use VPN for torrenting), so that it never uses your regular internet.

While I do not condone creating an account on Reddit, the megathread of r/piracy is really great and accessible without an account. Check it out! Also: https://fmhy.net/

Ahoy, and welcome to the high seas! There is a handy Wiki that may cover a lot of your questions, I suggest you give it a look and then follow-up with any additional questions you may have. (The link is also available in the sidebar of this community, if you ever need to find it quickly again without finding this post!)

Depending on the country, you may need a VPN for torrenting. The easiest way to stream content is Stremio + Torrentio, and networks like Soulseek, Fopnu, eMule, and DC++ are still active—and better than torrents for content that is no longer seeded.