Just venting. It involves the #InternetArchive but I am not blaming them at all, they are the greatest!
A few months ago I came across a treasure trove of VHS era movies on the Archive. Someone (it seemed) bought boxes and boxes of VHS tapes at garage sales or something and digitized them. Hundreds of them. Mostly #BMovies , #ExploitationMovies , Direct to video quickies and some made for TV #movies .
The files were listed alphabetically by a file name which was the entire title of the movie, year released with "VHSRip" appended on each one. Nothing in there ever made any money at the box office and generally don't exist anywhere else, except perhaps the depths of Tubi.
But now they are gone. Maybe the uploader took them down. Maybe IA removed them.
It bothers me a bit that this back alley of moviedom was removed when tons of Disney and other major studio and TV network material continue to rack up views.
VHSRipper, if you are out there somewhere and recognize yourself, let me know if you found another place to host your #VHSVault, I would love to continue working my way through it!
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Other titles like 
Unreal Championship 1 & 2 (Xbox-only) were never released for PC and downloading them is illegal.
