Re: Spiral BBC4 On Saturdays 9pm
Originally Posted by
Artangel
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Bruce, How do you manage to get all these programmes shown on British TV?
Within 20 minutes of a program being shown on TV anywhere in the world you can guarantee that it will be available for download in at least HD and/or 720p format.
How long it remains downloadable depends on how popular it is for example I am still trying to get most of Series 2 of a show mentioned here recently. It is there but slow to download because of so few people having it available.
You only need torrent program like
µtorrent - it does all the hard work for you. I use an old version (2.2.1) because like so many things these days the newer versions have got ads or even gone commercial.
No one seems to worry about downloading TV shows (especially as most jurisdictions recognise that they are legal to record) but movie piracy is a different matter. The federal government under pressure from US copyright holders has issued notices to major ISPs to block certain sites eg
Pirate Bay but these blocks are laughably easy to bypass using a VPN service.
BTW one such download site in the UK is
TV Chaos UK if you want to have a look. They don't allow pirated movies but UK TV programs are available within minutes of going to air.