It wasn't yet on iTunes at the time I downloaded it. I'm not sure why I still even have it on my portable hdd; I downloaded it out of morbid curiosity and thought it was trash.
Pirate DVDs and Torrent Downloads of Television Shows...
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Like The God Thing, I have Earth II, The Questor Tapes and Spectre in my collection. For some reason I haven't gotten Genesis II or Planet Earth yet, in fact this thread has reminded me that I should probably go and rectify this situation. I also have copies of Moonbase 3, Star Maidens and Starlost; none of which are available for Region 1. I also have a copy of the 1980 version of Brave New World as well.
Well, yes, fair point. But I guess I had thought there might be something interesting in there, even if it was an extremely minute portion. I was of course wrong.It's Aquaman, of course it was trash.
One of the parts of the show that I especially liked was the "battle of wills," per se, between Peter Coyote's Web and Jay Harrington's Paul Ryan over the "soul" of Rachel Nichols' Rebecca Locke. Ironically, the ratings for the show were actually steadily increasing when it was cancelled after airing seven episodes. There had been talk about a DVD release (to include two other pilots for the show -- one that was based on the show's original 21 Jump Street-esque premise and a second one in addition to Minear's pilot), but obviously nothing's come of that or I wouldn't have been able to mention it in this thread.
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Full series DVDs of both The Larry Sanders Show and Dream On. Given the laughably poor treatment both of these shows have received re: DVD releases, I'm not sorry. Dream On in particular is almost a full set of digital masters, which play perfectly on my computer. Should these shows ever receive the full DVD treatment, I'd be first in line to pay for them. But I'm not holding my breath.
So... can we openly discuss the downloading of shows now?
Legal downloading. 
The Wonder Years and The Larry Sanders Show are the only two older shows I have that aren't out yet. The music licensing is the obvious problem with the former and if they end up fucking that up like WKRP, I'll probably end up keeping my crappy VHS rips whether I buy the official sets or not.
The only other things I have are current shows that I don't have broadcast access to and haven't been released on DVD yet.
The only other things I have are current shows that I don't have broadcast access to and haven't been released on DVD yet.
A couple years ago my dad bought a 'bootleg' DVD set of The Invaders (1967-68) on ebay, presumably made from VHS transfers. This series will be coming to DVD in the US later this year.
I found this cool site called iOffer three months ago and picked up some shows that were on my want list:
Legend -- 1995 UPN show created by Michael Piller with Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie
It's like you know -- 1999 ABC sitcom, "Seinfeld in LA", but it only really made sense if you live in or know a lot about LA to understand the satire
Unhappily Ever After -- WB sitcom that ran from 95-99, created by the producer of "Married With Children", favorite character is Mr Floppy, the talking bunny!
Secret Agent Man -- 2000 UPN spy spoof that was surprisingly good (after I bought it I found out is was legally available in Australia)
now if I could only find Maximum Bob...
Legend -- 1995 UPN show created by Michael Piller with Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie
It's like you know -- 1999 ABC sitcom, "Seinfeld in LA", but it only really made sense if you live in or know a lot about LA to understand the satire
Unhappily Ever After -- WB sitcom that ran from 95-99, created by the producer of "Married With Children", favorite character is Mr Floppy, the talking bunny!
Secret Agent Man -- 2000 UPN spy spoof that was surprisingly good (after I bought it I found out is was legally available in Australia)
now if I could only find Maximum Bob...
Damn! Somebody else has seen WWIII! I loved that when it was on, and once had it on VHS somewhere, but it was lost a LONG time ago. I would love to see that again sometime.
As for the topic? Yep - I own a number of things that haven't been released in some form. If they release it, I will buy it, however.
Same here, for four of the five items I listed (Aquaman, I'm simply going to delete). I used to have Day Break on my external hard drive as well, but deleted those files when the DVD set was announced and currently have it pre-ordered through Amazon (set for release later this month).
I have the entire TV series Falcon Crest (all NINE seasons!) recorded from TV and burned to DVD. Some episodes are pretty rough...but it's better than nothing.
If and when this series ever comes out on DVD, I will be the first one standing on line to purchase 'legitimate' copies. But it is taking forever, and I have no idea why.
I have been patiently waiting for another 80's TV show, L.A. Law, as well, and I have no idea what's up with that. 3 years ago at a Trek Con, Corbin Bernsen said he thought the show would be out within a year...but so far, no luck.
I'm starting to think I'll need to resort to torrenting that show too.
I was ready to give up on Cagney & Lacey too, but we finally got season 1 of that show a few months back.
I wish I knew the reason why these shows are held up. Is there a place on the web where you can go and check the reasons why various shows are held up?
If and when this series ever comes out on DVD, I will be the first one standing on line to purchase 'legitimate' copies. But it is taking forever, and I have no idea why.
I have been patiently waiting for another 80's TV show, L.A. Law, as well, and I have no idea what's up with that. 3 years ago at a Trek Con, Corbin Bernsen said he thought the show would be out within a year...but so far, no luck.
I'm starting to think I'll need to resort to torrenting that show too.
I was ready to give up on Cagney & Lacey too, but we finally got season 1 of that show a few months back.
I wish I knew the reason why these shows are held up. Is there a place on the web where you can go and check the reasons why various shows are held up?
^ TVShowsOnDVD regularly reports on, well, TV shows on DVD. Might be useful for what you're looking for.
Nowadays the only time I torrent stuff is if my dvr messed up. For example, I recently snagged 2 random episodes of Project Runway and the finale of Sarah Connor becuase my DVR was dead and I was being sent a new one.
I figure these things are shown on free tv or basic cable anyway...me seeing them this way is hardly anything more than if I had watched them at a friend's house. We wouldn't be watching the ads there either.
Plus I AM paying for satellite at the time they air, even if I can't watch them because of the dvr dying.
I figure these things are shown on free tv or basic cable anyway...me seeing them this way is hardly anything more than if I had watched them at a friend's house. We wouldn't be watching the ads there either.
Plus I AM paying for satellite at the time they air, even if I can't watch them because of the dvr dying.
I don't pirate anything. I demand my entertainment be served up to me on a silver platter (literally in this case at least as long as the DVD format persists) or I'm not bothering with it.
I think we're all expecting to see a Deadwood Temis Avatar....
Ooooh, I 'm a bad, baaad boy! -I should go stay in the corner right away!
No Danish channel carried (carries) Trek! -It took the fan-club years of 'lobbying' to get a London-based (Danish language) channel to show TNG!
Obviously I taped every single episode. But there's a problem! The translations were (obviously) made by some English school-kid with only rudimentary knowledge of the Danish language and no idea about what Trek (or SciFi for that matter) actually is -imagine how treknobabble is translated and you'll seriously ROFL!!!
So I DL'ed the very same eps (in the very same quality: I'd never DL anything in DVD quality) without the ridiculous subtitles -and have never felt bad about it.
It also took me YEARS of intensive hunting to get my Trek DVD collecton together: Most clerks would look at me as if I were talking in Klingon and eventually point me to a stack of direct-to-video-dvd's and C&W-cd's (probably just to add the insult
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Eventually a shop opened where they have both new and used dvd's cd's box-set's AND vinyl's (yippie!) -They won't give me a rebate on my trekkies.dk-membership card, but I am treated as 'just another customer' which was a nice experience!
Now what do I DL? -hmm, the remastered stuff (of course: I can't wait five years to see if perhaps some channel might carry it eventually), Earth² (has never been on tv here), nBSG wasn't on tv here till about ½ a year ago (the fact that it can be seen on tv is somewhat amazing and took all of us Danish fan-boys by surprise) the same thing with Stargate (both of the series) and Farscape and pretty much anything that could be labeled SciFi, I WILL DL a series if I miss an ep or a film if the channel that carries it shows an amputated version (PanScanned or edited to suit English law for instance), I WILL DL a replacement if something i bought wasn't up for normal use (damn, those DVD's are easily ruined)
And what don't I DL: Full DVD-quality films and series, entire collections of stuff that's readily available elsewhere, films I might go and see in a theater and films/music I can just borrow (or DL as a matter of fact) from the library and rip myself.
No Danish channel carried (carries) Trek! -It took the fan-club years of 'lobbying' to get a London-based (Danish language) channel to show TNG!
Obviously I taped every single episode. But there's a problem! The translations were (obviously) made by some English school-kid with only rudimentary knowledge of the Danish language and no idea about what Trek (or SciFi for that matter) actually is -imagine how treknobabble is translated and you'll seriously ROFL!!!
So I DL'ed the very same eps (in the very same quality: I'd never DL anything in DVD quality) without the ridiculous subtitles -and have never felt bad about it.
It also took me YEARS of intensive hunting to get my Trek DVD collecton together: Most clerks would look at me as if I were talking in Klingon and eventually point me to a stack of direct-to-video-dvd's and C&W-cd's (probably just to add the insult
)Eventually a shop opened where they have both new and used dvd's cd's box-set's AND vinyl's (yippie!) -They won't give me a rebate on my trekkies.dk-membership card, but I am treated as 'just another customer' which was a nice experience!
Now what do I DL? -hmm, the remastered stuff (of course: I can't wait five years to see if perhaps some channel might carry it eventually), Earth² (has never been on tv here), nBSG wasn't on tv here till about ½ a year ago (the fact that it can be seen on tv is somewhat amazing and took all of us Danish fan-boys by surprise) the same thing with Stargate (both of the series) and Farscape and pretty much anything that could be labeled SciFi, I WILL DL a series if I miss an ep or a film if the channel that carries it shows an amputated version (PanScanned or edited to suit English law for instance), I WILL DL a replacement if something i bought wasn't up for normal use (damn, those DVD's are easily ruined)
And what don't I DL: Full DVD-quality films and series, entire collections of stuff that's readily available elsewhere, films I might go and see in a theater and films/music I can just borrow (or DL as a matter of fact) from the library and rip myself.
I find it hilarious that so many whiny fanboys rationalize this sort of theft with the argument that the company "owes them" a DVD release of some particular TV show. "It isn't stealing, because they haven't put out a DVD set with the original music and lots of extras!"
Hey, I'm the first to argue that the entertainment companies are a bunch of greedy assholes, and the whole music rights issue is a boondoggle that they caused themselves by being cheap assholes in the first place. And yes, it's hard to imagine how downloading a show that's not available on DVD costs them money.
But that still doesn't mean that pirating DVDs isn't stealing. Because it is, regardless of whether the content is for sale at your local Best Buy or not.
If you're going to do it, at least be man enough to admit you're committing theft.
And as others have said, I thought this BBS prohibited discussions of pirating music/movies, etc?
Hey, I'm the first to argue that the entertainment companies are a bunch of greedy assholes, and the whole music rights issue is a boondoggle that they caused themselves by being cheap assholes in the first place. And yes, it's hard to imagine how downloading a show that's not available on DVD costs them money.
But that still doesn't mean that pirating DVDs isn't stealing. Because it is, regardless of whether the content is for sale at your local Best Buy or not.
If you're going to do it, at least be man enough to admit you're committing theft.
And as others have said, I thought this BBS prohibited discussions of pirating music/movies, etc?
You aren't supposed to talk about how, or where to find things. I believe a topic such as this one is valid.
Oh, it's theft, sure, I won't pretend otherwise. However, as many of us have pointed out, we'd very gladly trade in our illegal copies for proper legal versions.
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