Aw man does anyone remember way back in the day there was a TV show produced by (I think Sony?) that was all about IRC pirating?
Edit: I think it was this, "The Scene" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
It’s funny how much better the Russian torrent tracker «Rutracker» is for foreign movies and serials, this show included. I love foreign movies and shows, and sometimes I literally can’t pay to watch it.
People may be unware of it, but yt-dlp has support for svtplay and thus can access/download the show directly. It may be geo-ip blocked however.
The intro says:
"[...] made its debut [...] earlier today. International viewers are left waiting until other services pick it up. In the meantime, [...] finding a pirated copy is proving surprisingly difficult."
I don't see the irony there: if it is so new that it is hard to find through legit channels, it makes total sense to me that it may be hard to torrent. I wouldn't make any conclusion on the day of the launch.
Before reading the article I thought it would be because of the name, like when it was hard to find the (great) album "The Music" by the band "The Music" in the early 2000s.
Streaming https://www.svtplay.se/the-pirate-bay works via e.g. Mullvad VPN (pick a Swedish location).
It only has audio and subtitles in Swedish though, so...
FWIW I don't see any copies yet on nzbgeek.info, a popular Usenet NZB tracker. Almost no releases at all from OLLONBORRE ever, for that matter, that's the scene group the article discusses.
I can't wait until I can just copy and paste the description or plot into an AI and have it generate the whole series or movie. Lionsgate and Runway teaming up should make that possible.
People speculated From Software named the player's horse mount in Eldrin Ring Torrent for the same reason.
The TPB Afk is a really good documentary about this IMO, not sure how this series will compare to that.
Never use public trackers (unless you're downloading Linux ISOs of course).
The casting is absolutely amazing.
Has anyone here seen/remember Welcome to the Scene series on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC2FCB2871C396459
I found it to be quite nice, there is a second season as well something related to ammunitions smuggling.
I think this article is jumping the gun ... Give it time ... I hadn't even heard of this show, and so obviously wasn't even looking for it ... And if it is in Swedish, I'll also have to wait for the complete English subtitles before I can watch it. (And personally, I've found that pirated TV shows / movies that are not English are, in general, difficult to find online).