I’ve seen them work on Freetube in the past although idk how, and maybe they no longer do

Polish could be a hard lift, especially for a VERY unpopular series… Maybe one of the saved Google searches on the megathread? Sometimes you can find VERY obscure things with that, but good luck having seeds by some miracle…

This! I imagine this guy has every paid service this could have been on, but then you need to sleuth what it’s on. Easier to go to a one stop shop, which with sports in the US is gonna be pirate because the deals for who airs what is insane. Even if it was on Fox, it would take non-0 effort to determine that, open your Hulu with live TV or YouTube TV, maybe it was only available live and you failed to fake DVR it…

Yeah, but it was all Kazaa and Limewire life until like… 2006-ish

Give them time with the full modern web experience. I know someone I’ve been trying to get to switch for years whose computer died right around the cutoff, so the new Chrome they installed on their new computer had no real ad blockers via being v3 only, and she switched within a week.

YES, I recommend rewarding the good capitalists, but… At this point I just assume if I pay money for it, it’s a scam and there’s SOME way to fuck me

True, but I won’t lose the ability to play a game or movie when thepiratebay.org is acquired by Google or Apple or Microsoft solely to shutter it and their DRM servers go down.

I am of the mind with anything digital – if you didn’t pirate it, you don’t own it

Yeah, I was gonna say, “Tuition at The Village Daycare starts at $2k/month”

I find TPB is best for old music, and one off random old things, – new TV, I recommend just always waiting for season packs on sites that offer full season packs and just living a few months behind. Must see GoT-style water cooler TV is mostly dead anyway.

The C: prompt let’s you know they mean business

I think the piratebay is fine. I haven’t seen anything mal on piratebay in years, and I think the last mal download I saw then was a basic the video itself is the text “go to http://malware.ru/payload/virus to download the codec for this totally legit file” not like, state actor polymorphic virus shit. For an mkv/mp4 itself to actually do anything, it would need to memory overflow the player (which could be mitigated in several ways) and that’s a heavy engineering lift to use to do much on a modern OS (and would be specific to one OS/version/hardware situation). A criminal organization or state actor bothering to develop something like that isn’t going to put it on piratebay to be downloaded by 10000 randos globally, they’d put it on the public web, or target it to specific high value targets.

I’m old enough to remember when “sneakernet” meant 3.5" floppies, and was a pretty legit solution versus 2400 baud modems…

You gotta love how aggressively they prevent users from seamlessly running executables from the internet, a VERY legitimate common use case, but a desktop shortcut from the internet? Run away!

I’d wager your DVD rips are same quality, most stuff from the 90’s touched by computer anything is 480p at the source. VHS, it would be an improvement probably.