Since this is in nostupidquesrions and not a piracy community I’ll offer a different take:
Try your local library for physical copies. Depending on your library system, it may be free (or low cost) to have copies sent from other branches. Again depending on your system it may be possible to get copies from libraries outside of the system through Inter Library Loans (ILL) if your library participates.
Also library systems may have access to some streaming content, depends on your system. Some large cities, like NYC, offer library cards to everyone in t the state.
Tangentially related, the Internet Archive also hosts tons of material you might not find anywhere else. Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve found things like Mister Rogers episodes there that aren’t available on Amazon or DVDs. Quality of content may vary and you’re more likely to find older content there.
Libraries existed before any licensing or copyright even existed lol. The entire point is to ‘copy’ information, which is exactly what happens when you let many people look at the same clay tablet or whatever. Peer to peer.
You could literally sit there and copy from someone else’s scroll on to your own scroll.
Adding on, in what might seem like an inane answer, but also worth checking out the local free to air television. Some of them may have apps or other means of watching on demand, if you don’t feel like taking the traditional route of watching whatever it is is on the television at a given time.
For example, if you have a TV licence, you can just stream stuff from the BBC through their Web player.
Since this is in nostupidquesrions and not a piracy community I’ll offer a different take:
Try your local library for physical copies. Depending on your library system, it may be free (or low cost) to have copies sent from other branches. Again depending on your system it may be possible to get copies from libraries outside of the system through Inter Library Loans (ILL) if your library participates.
Also library systems may have access to some streaming content, depends on your system. Some large cities, like NYC, offer library cards to everyone in t the state.
Tangentially related, the Internet Archive also hosts tons of material you might not find anywhere else. Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’ve found things like Mister Rogers episodes there that aren’t available on Amazon or DVDs. Quality of content may vary and you’re more likely to find older content there.
The logical conclusion of libraries is piracy anyway. Like that’s their entire point, the dissemination of information freely.
Yes.
Not really. Libraries function within the constraints of licensing. They buy physical copies of materials and license digital copies.
With libraries the content creators (and yes distributors) are still being paid for their works AND information gets to sprees freely.
I’d argue that libraries are superior piracy.
Libraries existed before any licensing or copyright even existed lol. The entire point is to ‘copy’ information, which is exactly what happens when you let many people look at the same clay tablet or whatever. Peer to peer.
You could literally sit there and copy from someone else’s scroll on to your own scroll.
Adding on, in what might seem like an inane answer, but also worth checking out the local free to air television. Some of them may have apps or other means of watching on demand, if you don’t feel like taking the traditional route of watching whatever it is is on the television at a given time.
For example, if you have a TV licence, you can just stream stuff from the BBC through their Web player.