Using the site is simple, and after downloading your first file you will be wondering why you bother to use any other direct download site.
Just follow these steps below:
1: Just enter your search term in the search box like below, we have chosen Windows 7
2: You will then be presented with a list of results like below:
3: Once you have chosen your download, click on it and you will be taken to a page similar to this:
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You should always be wary about what you download, always check the the file sizes match what you are looking for, for example, if you are looking for a movie and you find a file that is under 600MB, the file is most likely either fake or a trailer. Check out the table below for common file sizes:
| File type | Common file size |
|---|---|
| Application | 1MB <= 4GB |
| Game | 30MB <= 8GB |
| Movie | 600MB <= 2GB |
| Music | 2MB <= 300MB |
| eBook | 1MB <= 100MB |
| TV | 120MB <= 400MB |
This table should only be used as a guide, some movies and TV shows are in high definition and will exceed the limits shown.
Pirate Access indexes the most popular file hosting sites, these are: rapidshare.com, megaupload.com, uploading.com, depositfiles.com, easy-share.com, hotfile.com, letitbit.net, netload.in, storage.to, fileserve.com, sharingmatrix.com, uploaded.to, wupload.com, oron.com, filejungle.com, filepost.com, . We add new hosts from time to time but only if they have a lot of files. You will find most downloads are on the rapidshare servers, you can usually interchange links so if one link doesn't work at one host, you can use the other host, this is known as mirroring.
Downloading is simple, if you experience any problems, just search for another download or try a different mirror. Remember to rate the downloads so other users know wether to download or not.
Extracting files is simple, Windows has a built in ZIP extractor all you need to do is right click the ZIP file and choose the "extract all" option. It may seem a bit weird but the reason files are compressed in the first place is so that they are made smaller for YOU to download and because files are smaller it will take less time to download! Anything other than ZIP files (e.g. RAR, 7z) can be extracted with WinRAR, this program can also extract ZIP files too.
Some files are password protected, this can be a problem because sometimes a password is not provided. Fortunatley we have our very own password retrieving tool built in to the site that will usually find the password for your file within 24 hours. If our password retrieval tool doesn't find your desired password, you can download our password list and use a rar password cracker to obtain the password needed. The password retrieval tool can be found on the download page.