Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

Digimon World 2003. I never owned a PlayStation (was a Nintendo-only fanboy for years until I bought a PS2 in the mid-00s a year before the Xbox 360 was announced) and tried to run an emulator of it for over a decade before it was fully supported. I also had trouble because I found out the only English version that didn't have that stupid "once you start fighting the final boss, you can't explore the game world anymore" thing they used to do in JRPGs was the European version. Now I can actually play it, even using gameshark codes, easily... if I could only find the time to play it!

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

Closed Door Village, Chinese film from 2014. I have it with hardcoded mandarin subs, but it's never been translated as far as I can tell.

Heil Honey I'm Home!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home!

Pilot on the BBC. It's a sitcom about Hitler and Eva moving into an English neighborhood next-door to a nice Jewish couple. I had a copy from BTN but can't find it anywhere now.

Chad's World

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0960743/

Super-fucked pilot from DEN. A studio that was attempting a streaming business in the 90s or 00s, and abusing minors.

It stars fucking Stiffler. It's about a teen who's friend kills himself over the pressure/reaction of coming out to his parents. The teen is rescued by his brother and whisked any to LA.

It's an insane groomer story that matches the scandals at DEN. I have a 240p copy, but I SWEAR I had a better one before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Pierce

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Entertainment_Network

A 1080p version of W1A series 2

The full dicography of Soichi Terada is my whale. A bonus would be all the other Far East Recording artists too, but Terada is the big deal for me.

Terada is a Japanese house music artist who was most active in the 90s, but anyone outside of Japan might know him better as the soundtrack artist for Ape Escape for the PS1.

What makes it particularly hard is that a good chunk of his work was vinyl only. I've got his more recent stuff that got CD releases.

A proper colour pdf of D&D 5E.

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.

Modern Marvels!

A late 80's TV show called Monsters

Caught a handful of episodes when I was a kid. It's available on Amazon, but I'd like a local copy. With as many TV shows have the word Monsters in it, it's hard enough to even search for.

Edit: ROFL and as I post this I decided to google it, and archive.org has all 3 seasons archived.

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.

The entire series of Inside the Actors Studio.

Any Apple+ fitness video

Hypernauts (1996). It's an old TV series that was cancelled part way through airing. I found a complete season on a TV archive project website, but it's 480p and has baked in Japanese subs that obscure a lot of the screen. The show itself isn't great, it's just something I'd like to collect.

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.

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.

Love this thread. My white whale is The New Encyclopaedia Britannica 15th ed. 2010 edition. Its here but a loan https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24447878M/The_New_Encyclopaedia_Britannica

No idea how to extract it.

archive.org has only 2007 ed :(

Anyone know where to find the Calm meditation app audio files?

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.