This is going to sound really silly for like an adult in 2019 not to know, but like what are some best practices on pirating safely?
hm i’m not sure what you’re asking exactly but
make sure you always have your antivirus & adblockers on. adblockers are mostly just because you’ll get spammed by like 15 pages of shitty ads
don’t do the things where they’re like “take this quick survey and you’ll get the download afterwards” or anything where they need your phone number
streaming tips: google “(show name) 123m*vies” (or putl*cker, the * is an o), if you click play and it doesn’t start/takes you to another page/shows you a trailer or something, don’t bother, it’s a fake page, just try another one
for downloads, i don’t have a site for direct downloads anymore, i just use pir*tebay where you can torrent stuff. basically you’re downloading from someone else directly (instead of from a website where it’s been uploaded) you have to download a software (i use BitTorrent) and you just open the torrent with it and it starts downloading, but don’t forget to delete it from the software afterwards or it’ll keep allowing people to download it from you and it’ll slow your internet down (it’s polite to leave it for a bit though, like, some people were nice enough to allow you to download from them). i’d say learn a bit more about it if you want to torrent because some people don’t trust it but i haven’t had issues with it
if you download a movie and end up with like a .exe or something um don’t open it it’s probably a virus. as long as it’s a video file it’s fine, if there’s a .srt file that’s the subtitles
tbh i don’t have safety tips besides antivirus & adblockers & general instincts on what’s trustworthy, i feel like with movies the risks are pretty low, it’s a different story with games