Where/how to get footage?

[mythicmistress]

Uh, hi, it's me again... I'm sorry to bother you all again, but I have another question/request. Here goes: Where do you all download footage for projects? I lost access to the site I used for the few movies and one OVA I managed to get. Also, how do you go about it without bringing your ISP down on your head? (I got yelled at by my dad for doing that last time...) I need to know how to do it safely as well. I'm still running Windows 7, if that matters. Help, please? Thank you in advance.

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[allekha]

For normal media sources, I would usually torrent. To keep your ISP from coming down on your head, a VPN is the way to go - there are free ones, but the usual internet caveats apply (if it's free, your data may be the product); I use a paid one.

[mythicmistress]

Okay, thanks! Do you have any torrent sites/VPNs that you recommend?

[allekha]

There's a big chart of VPNs compared here. I use Mullvad and it works fine. Nord gets advertised a lot, but I found it slowed my connection to a crawl, and they also had an undisclosed breach a while back.

rarbg for movies and nyaa for anime are good places to start. If what you're looking for isn't there, hitting up google should find you other large sites.