Jingle All The Way is an underrated classic.
The “must have” toy mania that it captures was newish then, but is normalized behavior now.
Just that a lot of it takes place over the internet, and there are even more speculators, and the manufacturers deliberately create artificial scarcity to drive profits.
JDownloader is a tool whose continued development is well worth supporting.
I believe that eD2K was the next P2P to gain wide popularity after those went down.
It’s de-centralized, so unlike Napster/Kazaa, the feds can’t take it down by seizing only one server, which they have tried.
Consider non-torrent P2P platforms like eMule/eD2K. If you know what the name of you’re looking for, there’s a fair amount of obscure material to be downloaded that can be difficult to find otherwise.
eD2K is slow, but effective.
https://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php is my go-to for documentary torrents.
It could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.
If you’re using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar
The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.
Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you’re connected or firewalled.