I suppose if you call it illegal mumbo- jumbo then it is the same whether you get it from a torrent, from Rikter or from anyone else. Personally I would feel safer getting it from Rikter than downloading it. He even has a disclaimer saying you cannot get them if you do not own the originals, which I am assuming you have them on VHS like the majority of us. In that case while it may still be considered illegal, it is in a bit of a gray area, you alreay own that same material on one formatte, you are just getting a backup copy of it on a different formatte. But either way I suppose the way the video industry looks at it, it is all ilegal mumbo-jumbo.