• Zefrem23@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    101·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • alynnetjes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Wow haven’t heard that name in a while. Chock full of 2000s B-actresses. Glad you could find it! Campy movies are sooo good.

      And what a story of the other series. Congrats and great to pay it forward.

  • Eidolon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Neilia_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    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…

  • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.oneEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I have all of the how it’s made. Just not modern marvels. Only have a season or two out of 20+

        • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’d be interested for How It’s Made. I see a few episodes from later seasons in public trackers but the sheer amount of shows, a private tracker is more likely to have it

  • Musclewizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Grey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Plenty of options for embrilliance which seems to be a major competitor, maybe have her give that a try?

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Interesting! I’d probably recommend VM route another posted suggested but if they are diligent with authentication and updates that may be difficult. Old school serial cracking a demo version may be viable here.

      • Musclewizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’m not too proficient with cracking it myself but the software phones home and installs driver level stuff before it runs. It’s wild.

  • InformalTrifle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    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

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      That’s unfortunate! I’ve heard of a similar case with other properties. I’ve heard some time ago that students have access to some version of the entire BBC library but I don’t know the extent of access or quality. There’s many UK shows I’d like to collect but they prove difficult to find still

    • weinermeat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This is actually available on the internet, here’s the note for that episode:

      S06 01 - Yuppy Love (Music cuts restored) (TV/DVD/VHS)

      There are actually a lot of episodes throughout with music-related cuts judging from the list I’m looking at.

      • InformalTrifle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Oh wow, I’ve actually found it with one seeder. Fingers crossed. Never could when I tried in the past. Thank you!

  • RighteousFog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    • 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.

    • QuikxSpec@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Agreed. Between this, a full archive of Austin City Limits, Graham Norton and Later… with Jools Holland I’m right there with you. Live and intimate long form programs are few and far between.

  • Poob@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Copies of the Battlestar Galactica board game expansions. I have Pegasus from when it was in print, but the rest are ludicrously expensive ($500+ usd EACH)

  • ???@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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!

  • coaltrain2371@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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 :)