&gt;one of their founder said he was starting to give up<p>Nobody of the original team (tiamo, brokep, ...) are still working on TPB. They&#x27;ve given up long time ago (at the time of the trial).<p>&gt;although I&#x27;m a little worried about who is running them, but I guess they can be trusted<p>TPB is now managed by someone else, and they&#x27;ve as shady as 
the the others.<p>&gt;TOR will still be a safe haven for torrents<p>Tor isn&#x27;t good for p2p, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-good-idea" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.torproject.org&#x2F;blog&#x2F;bittorrent-over-tor-isnt-go...</a><p>&gt;there are many decentralized techs which are being ready to serve torrents<p>You can really easily build your own search engines by listening&#x2F;crawling the DHT.