For anyone looking to dip their toes in the seven seas
Soulseek is a peer to peer media sharing network akin to limewire
yt-dlp i a command line Youtube video/audio downloader that does hq
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
KissAnime for streaming anime: https://kissanime.com.ru/
Similar sites that let you stream movies/shows/manga are aggregated on sites like TheBestCouchPotatoList:
You can find most free streaming sites through google/duckduckgo searches or pirating communities like the r/Piracy sub on reddit
Anything else can be found on torrent sites, which are usually aggregated on sites like TheProxyBay or r/piracy
On some older shows you can see this start to happen in realtime as you watch through the back catalogue. The oldest episodes will be like 26 mins long, and if the show ran long enough, the newer ones are like 18 mins. Utterly insane to me that people just accepted this shit.