I use torrents a lot, but it's not a perfect solution. For one, P2P is mostly a myth — most people (myself included, I will admit) are pure leechers that only

I use torrents a lot, but it's not a perfect solution. For one, P2P is mostly a myth — most people (myself included, I will admit) are pure leechers that only seed at very low bandwidth while downloading. Seeders are either altruistic downloaders who rent a dedicated seedbox, or some servers in Russia whose incentive structure I fail to comprehend (or more honestly: haven't looked into). Number two: because of this, the catalog is not amazing. Even popular recent shows have issues. Case from very recently: I gave up on finding 1080p versions of The Good Place season 1 & 2 (on public trackers at least). Anything not in English? Try your luck but mostly forget it. It's worse for music — the system doesn't incentivize a lot of small uploads but rather grouping them. So finding rare tracks/b-sides is very hard. Back in the day, Kazaa and eMule were vastly better with rarities. This is not an indictment of BitTorrent — it's still the best we have. But I wish we had better.