Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

One game I do not even know the title of. My brother used to play it when I was 6 years old. I remember the game being monochrome, not sure about the crt itself. But it was a kind of XCOM if I’d have to describe it, about some crew that lands on an underwater planet. It’s still my white whale coz I still have not found even the name . I tried chatgpting suggestions recently to no avail.

It's not a white whale, it's a Holy Grail. The white whale is something that occupies your every waking moment and you wish to eliminate so you can get on with your life.

Having an apartment, and a job at the same time.

I’m 40. I’ve almost achieved it.

Hi-Res scans of paintings and photographs. Like starry night from van gogh:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

Would love a library of photos from Feininger or Salgado, paintings etc.

I would love a private tracker for art digitalizations.

Kind of shameful but there is this one porn movie I used to have on a CDR that got lost between apartments. It's stupid cause it's #17 of a 20+ series and you can find #16 and #18 in like 2 minutes, but this one has disappeared from the face of the internet. The studio stopped listing it some time ago then they were bought out and the new owners never listed that one. Believe it or not I literally sent an email to the male star of the movie, but he never responded. There goes my holy grail. It must have gone out of stock and maybe the masters got lost or something. I know one rip was made at some point cause I found a filename in a listing, but it is long lost. Farewell lost porn 🙋‍♂️ farewell...

A complete collection of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, including the first few years that nobody thought to record. The LLS Archive channel on YouTube is the most comprehensive source available but there's still huge gaps of missing episodes. Rumor has it there's one guy out there who recorded every episode on VHS but is refusing to digitize them.

Insomniac with Dave Atell. I loved that show on Comedy Central, but it was never put on dvd that I could find. I’ve never found a good torrent of it either.

Damn, I miss that show.

Fun School 6: Futureland. Its a shitty edutainment game from the 90s that I played non-stop for like a year, that I want to get my hands on for nostalgia purposes. As far as I can tell its not available (online or physical media) anywhere. I finally found a copy for sale a few years ago, but it turned out to be a mislabelled copy of fun school 6: fairyland.

I will keep searching, eventually a copy will show up somewhere!

The entire series of Inside the Actors Studio.

A good quality version of the "VR.5" tv series from 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR.5

It's a TV show about virtual reality and has peak 90's aesthetic. They shot the scenes in "virtual reality"on black and white film and colorized them manually afterwards to create a very distinct and vibrant look. That must've been so much hard work.

Sadly, there is only a 240p VHS rip with extremely terrible quality out there. I've always wanted to watch the whole thing, but it's too degraded to enjoy like this.

I actually went and bought my white whale and ripped it myself eventually. It's a silly movie called DEBS but every version I could find had an error in the final scene. So I ripped it from DVD, if only now I could figure out how to self host it.

On a related note, the first white whale I ever had is how I got into piracy, it was a kids show called ik mik loreland that we got to see in school as to learn spelling. They never showed us the entire series, and I had been obsessed with it for years untill on the news they talked about birate-pay. Eventually found a tracker on tickass-korrents. It took me 6 months to complete from what I assume was one seeder who didn't use a PC ever. Recently register it myself and am proud to say it now has 4 dedicated seeders.

• A rip of this specific limited edition CD, that contains a few bonus tracks that can't be found anywhere else in CD quality.

• A PDF of the short-lived Japanese edition of GURPS 4th Edition (specifically Characters and Magic). The books are very hard to find, and usually cost $300-500 when sold online. It seems like no scans were ever made.

I recently had the pleasure to slay it actually. It was the kinda like Twilight Zone but Horror 'Night Gallery' from 1996. It did exist, but the torrent that was circulating was messed up beyond belief. Episodes cut off at 20 minutes etc. Some dude on a private tracker ripped the whole thing anew for me.

A cracked version of Hatch. It's embroidery software that my GF has wanted to use for her hobby / tiny side hustle but a license costs literally hundreds of dollars.

A long time ago I had this album (Napster era), I think it was called "Incubus vs Incubus" where someone had remixed all the songs from Make Yourself with half studio songs and half live and it was great. I lost it years ago and I've not seen it since.

A remix version of Dragostea Din Tei, aka the Numa Numa, where the artist faded in part of the song a couple of times in a really interesting manner. I found it on limewire back in the mid 2000s and lost it in a reformat. Haven't found it since.

Uncensored Metalocalypse with perfect subtitles.

Seven Days. It has one of the coolest premises, and the lead is like a combination of James Bond and McGuyver.

I never found it on any tracker, but I literally looked it up before writing this and learned it has a DVD release in 2018, so that is exciting.

Cottage Country (2013). Meant to be similar to Tucker and Dale Vs Evil and I just can't find a torrent anywhere!

A dragon ball z game. I used to play it years ago. All I remember now is that you play as goku, is like 16bit games, can go into supersayan mode and mostly fight in the air.

Mr meaty, it took me a year or so to find it. Not on rarbg, not on pirate bay, not on iptorrents, not on DVD/streaming. I finally got it a month back and I'm exstatic.

The original tv broadcast version of only fools and horses s06e01 (yuppy love). The dvd version available everywhere has a scene cut out where Rodney asks Casandra to dance and it’s so weird without it. I think it was due to copyright on the music playing in the scene

The first 3 seasons of Timon and Pumbaa in Finnish. I've been hunting for years and I only have one episode here and another there.

1. Dead Poetic band merch. A little-known post hardcore band from the early 2000's. I've got all of their CDs and some limited press Vinyls, but I would kill for some legit shirts. Years ago I found a sketchy site that claimed to have a handful left, but they were all too small. I wish now I still had bought them anyways, but oh well.

2. A GameBoy game I played as a kid that was some kind of JRPG. It wasn't a well known one like Chrono, Mother, Final Fantasy Tactics, etc. I have searched through lists online and tried finding screenshots and videos of gameplay, been through several hours of vids, but nothing I've found has been it.

3. A stupid video from the earlier days of YouTube called "The Poop." There is a "The Poop 2" but it's not the same. My friend and I found it randomly on some late night YouTube binge and cried laughing. It became an inside joke between us for years and we would link the video to each other or sing the music from it for instant laughter. It either got privated or deleted. I've spent hours and hours combing through the depths of YT and the internet at large trying to find a copy/reupload, same for my friend, but we've never found it.

Number 2 is SOLVED!!! Holy crap, I literally just randomly found it. Talking about it here inspired me to try some more Google-fu and I happened across an ebay listing for Quest: Brian's Journey and the cartridge artwork immediately jogged my memory. Looks like I mis-remembered some details, that makes me even happier that I found it!

Going to be totally NOT downloading a ROM to play on my Steam Deck this evening...I would never...

Shakira's first 2 albums in lossless quality without any vinyl noise. I met a guy who shared a sample and I was amazed. Huge shame he's offline...

I've been collecting for years, trying to get the full run of "Disney Adventures" magazine. I have a solid amount of physical magazines that i've been scanning, but would love to find a collection of the full run scanned and ready to download :)

For years I've been trying to get a rip of the Dragon Ball Z: Rock the Dragon box set usually sells for hundreds of dollars. The thing that makes it special is that its the only release with the voice cast that originally aired in the States. Those voices (Vegeta and Krillin particularly) hold a lot of nostalgia for me

I've been trying to find this for years with no success but when seeing this post I decided to look around again and it seems like luck is finally with me. Some kind soul uploaded all of it along with the Westwood dub (same voice actors doing the later seasons that were dubbed by Funimation here in the states) to archive.org

DesignaKnit, such a niche software… and SO expensive when wanting to use it for hobby knitting

A proper colour pdf of D&D 5E.

Manta manta 1991 (german movie) bluray 1080p dubbed in english. (Original release).

A BBC art history documentary series called "Private Life of a Masterpiece". I have about half in a mixed bag.

Also the 5th season (I think) of an old Food Network show called "The Thirsty Traveler".

There used to be this one swiss cooking show for kids called „Cocolino“ with a blue cat that had a fried egg as an eyepatch. Been trying to find it online every once in a while, never with any success.

A full recording of "Live Aid" Form 85

Modern Marvels!

Edit: After a really long time I finally stopped being lazy and figured out how to upload the book to ABB myself.

I actually managed to find mine a while ago.

I pirate a lot of hard sci-fi/cyberpunk audiobooks using stuff like Mobilism or AudiobookBay and using Sirin Audiobook Player to listen to them, one of the first series I added to my library was the Takeshi Kovacs trilogy by Richard K. Morgan.

See everything was fine with the first two books (Altered Carbon and Broken Angels) which were readily avaliable on both those sites, but it was the final book Woken Furies that I was really after, reason being there were two versions: One was everywhere I looked and is narrated by William Dufris and the other that I was actually looking for is by Todd McLaren.

Basically people really hated how the first version by William sounded (there was an unnecessary reverb effect in some parts and he pronounces the main character's name wrong throughout the whole book) to a point they started a petition to get Todd McLaren (who did the first two books) to redo the final one. McLaren actually says the guy's name right in all the books and generally is a better narrator, also the weird reverb effects were gone.

It took months of searching but I eventually found it through Mobilism (second result in the image), using a burner e mail I got a free trail of their premium service to directly download the file. Now I can rest easy knowing I have all three books read by the same person.