Reminds me of the irrational Y2K fear from a couple of years ago. Usenet is the way to go today. Search for the warez groups. Illegal web sites for downloading get closed down too quickly. Microsoft pays a few companies to have employees search the web looking for sites so they can be closed down.
Lawyers mail out a letter and the hosting company pulls the plug on the site.
Secondhand stores are a good place to find old 386's and slow 486's with small harddrives loaded with dos and windows 3.x software. You'd be amazed at the things you can get for a few dollars. You could walk through a store and see all kinds of old 30 or 40 meg harddrives stacked on shelves. You'd also be amazed at the things that someone would forget to delete or overwrite so others couldn't read it. Net is the opinions of its users.