The Megathread’s greatest strength is that it is community-moderated with a paranoia that borders on obsessive—and that is a good thing. In the world of piracy, one wrong click can lead to malware. The Megathread rigorously vets its links. If a site is listed there, the probability of it being a trap is near zero. It effectively filters out the SEO-optimized fake sites that dominate Google search results.
If you are torrenting, a VPN hides your activity from your ISP.
The Megathread is organized by media type to facilitate ease of access.
The megathread will not just give you a link. It will give you a (a digital fingerprint) to verify the file is authentic and instructions to block Adobe's servers in your firewall. This is the difference between a successful crack and a bricked PC.