Reply #10: It's not legal ... [View All]

[RoyGBiv]

Period.

That said, it can be done if you know where to look and have the right tools. I know of a source that is updated daily with pretty much everything you could ever want to watch on television. (And you can get pretty much everything that's ever been shown in the past if you have enough patience and wait for it.) That is, the show airs, and within an hour it's there. Or a show that you're wanting to see but haven't seen in years will have, eventually, all its episodes show up. It's not secret by any means, but you have to understand there's more to the Internet than just the Web.

Cryptic enough? :-)

Oh, and despite what others have advised, stay the hell away from torrents. Unless you clearly know what you're doing, you will end up being defined as a distributor if you use a torrent. Even if you don't, your IP is easier to pinpoint, and people are actually employed as "distributors" of copyrighted or other illegal material and make lists of those who connect to them to partake. Do it enough, and you *will* get a knock on your door.

Peer-to-peer file sharing is one of the worst ways of sharing files that are not strictly legal to share. It's user-friendly, sure, and you can search for and usually find pretty much anything you want. A price goes with that sometimes that's not measured in terms of money.