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Really old movies are surprisingly hard to find... Outside of Turner Classic Movies (thanks, Comcast, for dumping that from my package and leaving all the othe
by douche 11y ago
Really old movies are surprisingly hard to find... Outside of Turner Classic Movies (thanks, Comcast, for dumping that from my package and leaving all the other shit), and the Criteria Collection, it can be kind of difficult to find anything that isn't Oscar-winning or older than 30 years. Torrents don't even really help - you might have 4000 seeders for the latest shaky-cam movie theater rip of a super hero movie, but for a somewhat obscure John Ford western from 1947, you might have two, three, maybe.
- Falkon1313 11y agoI wonder how much of that is due to the reign of terror of the hollywood monopolies in their fight against torrenting? Of course the consumers of obscure movies are less common than the latest blockbuster, but they're out there, and there are enough of them. They're turning off seeding and peering once the download's complete so that they won't get caught. Torrenting can help preserve those old/obscure things and make them available even when the owners don't care and think it isn't worthwhile. But because of the fight to protect the new pop things, the old /obscure ones vanish. Meanwhile, the new pop things have so many more people interested, that they are readily available.
- nkurz 11y agoPerhaps Fandor might have what you are looking for? https://www.fandor.com/movie-genres/classic-films-14 https://www.fandor.com/movie-genres/classic-films-14 https://www.fandor.com/movie-genres/silent-films-162 https://www.fandor.com/movie-genres/silent-films-162