Some of those old private torrent trackers that deal with old television recordings are very popular as of late. People go to ebay or garage sales to buy recorded VHS tapes and convert them to digital. Just recently someone found a tape of the broadcast premiere of the original Star Wars movie on ABC or something like that. It's now one of two versions that have been discovered. Much of this stuff uploaded there doesn't get to YouTube because of all the wild takedowns for copyright. I uploaded some filler from MTV2 back in its early days when they used to pad their commercial breaks with strange filler content and most of those videos all got taken down within days. Not the music videos or shows, just their commercial breaks. Search YT for early MTV2 bumpers and commercials and you might still find some. Their copyright strike system is screwed. Internet Archive is a little better but it seems they're starting to go down that trail now as well. Those private trackers may be where you may inevitably need to go to find stuff like this in the future

Some of those old private torrent trackers that deal with old television recordings are very popular as of late. People go to ebay or garage sales to buy recorded VHS tapes and convert them to digital.

Just recently someone found a tape of the broadcast premiere of the original Star Wars movie on ABC or something like that. It's now one of two versions that have been discovered.

Much of this stuff uploaded there doesn't get to YouTube because of all the wild takedowns for copyright. I uploaded some filler from MTV2 back in its early days when they used to pad their commercial breaks with strange filler content and most of those videos all got taken down within days. Not the videos, just their commercial breaks. Search YT for early MTV2 bumpers and commercials and you might still find some. Their copyright strike system is screwed. Internet Archive is a little better but it seems they're starting to go down that trail now as well. Those private trackers may be where you may inevitably need to go to find stuff like this in the future