Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com Chocrates @lemmy.world 9mo ago

Resource for old American TV shows?

I have been out of the Piracy game for almost a decade so im starting over.

Anyone know of good resources for "old" American TV shows? Late 90's to mid 2000's.

None for the sites I tried in the mega thread had anything.

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This one is tough but if you're lucky, you can find them.

I had to rip my own DVD sets of Kids in the Hall and Mr. Show.

I got really fuckin lucky when I found copies of Get A Life.

I've had halfway decent luck with Soulseek with more obscure shit (like Get A Life was found on Soulseek), but a lot of people on there have their collections locked up and only want to "trade rare shit" and if you don't have rare shit they want, you can kick rocks. I fucking hate it, because it's the antithesis of what piracy is supposed to be, which is freely sharing. These guys have turned it into a retro collection competition and it sucks.
Usenet
- No you use the net!
- Pasting from my reply to a PM I just received:
  
  You need a client, provider, and nzb indexer.
  
  I use SabNZBD, Eweka.nl, and nzbgeek. It's about $70/yr or so for the two subscriptions.
  
  You will configure the download client to use the provider for its connection, but the nzbs you download will tell your client which messages contain the files.
  
  You can search the indexer and download files that way as if you were using a torrent site. But it is really smooth and easy to use with sonarr or radarr fetching things for you. In that case, you would configure those fetchers to log into the indexer to search then send the NZB to your client automatically.
Torent galaxy let's you search via imdb code to know immediately if it's there.

Have had luck finding complete older series.

Soap from the 70s Alice also 70s Simpsons season 1 - 6 for some reason got hard to find after that

Also the big c showtime from 2000s

Dunno what you're looking for specifically but tgx has been my go to.
- 70s Simpsons
  
  Hang on now 🤣
  
  These kids.
  
  Lol
  
  It didn't format right. Supposed to have a tab between each of those.
TV-Vault, but I have no idea how you'd get into it these days. Feel free to PM me what you're looking for, though.
- Feel free to PM me what you’re looking for, though.
  
  Why the need for a PM? People shouldn't be ashamed of admitting "I'm really just looking for That's So Raven."
The uploader "icecracked" on 1337x has tons of older shows.
Have you tried private torrent trackers? IPTorrents has a lot of stuff, I hear.
Doesn’t really answer your question – but you might look at over-the-air(OTA) solutions.
- I use a Tablo OTA DVR and there is a Tablo Ripper app that I use to pull the MP4's out of it (sadly not a feature they offer). Then I use MCE Buddy to remove commercials. So your suggestion is legit.
  
  Extra bonus it's technically not piracy 😄
  
  my co-worker wants an ota dvr. what one do you have? and is it easy to use for someone that can barely navigate a tv menu? ease of use and minimal internet bandwidth use (they use a 'jetpack' with crappy signal for internet at home) are their main requirements.
- Used DVD box sets could be the cheapest, and certainly the fastest way to get them.
  
  I would recommend first checking what resources are available at their local library and within it’s network.
if you find any look up my so called life because it was amazing
RetroFlix tracker may have it.

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