If you type "13377x" into Google today, you might be met with a takedown notice. This has led to the rise of "proxy" and "mirror" sites—clones of the site hosted on different domains to bypass blocks. This resilience has made it the go-to destination for users in countries like India, the UK, and Australia, where torrent sites are routinely blacklisted by court orders.

In the golden age of the internet, before streaming services fragmented our viewing habits into a dozen different subscriptions, the "video store" was a digital place. It was a chaotic, user-driven library where you could find anything from a Criterion Collection classic to a cam-rip of a movie released three hours ago.