TV series are no more white or black then anything else. Giving copies of music, films and similar to your friends was always legal and still is in most parts of the world.

Archive.org has for example "Night of the Living Dead" from 1968 a well-known zombie movie:
http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead

Unfortunately, it's offered at several encodings that are not very useful - either much too high compressed MPEG-4 or over 4 GB as MPEG-2 which has probably great quality but is a little heavy for downloading. The size of the MPEG-1 might look OK but MPEG-1 offers really bad quality. Well, just download a few megabytes and compare yourself.

However, traffic doesn't seem to be a problem for them at all so you might just go for the MPEG-2 if you care about the quality - it's b/w anyway. Although files over 4 GB are still a problem for many applications and filesystems.


I looked for an alternate encoded version on Gnutella. There was one but too few reliable sources to download it. And most of the results are for a newer version from 1998 (or so) which is of course not public domain yet!

A problem of P2P is that non-free content gets so much publicity and hype that people are not even aware of the free alternatives and then P2P gets blamed because people use it for copyright infringement.