DSRIP. Digital Satellite Rip. It meant someone had captured the raw stream directly from a European satellite feed. No logo. No static. Pristine, or as pristine as 480p got in 2003.

Then he saw the post: [DSRIP] Family Guy S03 - Complete - High Quality

Leo’s blood went cold. He rewound. Played it again. The glitch repeated. He checked the file integrity. Nothing. He played it on a different media player. Same glitch. Same human eyes, for one four-hundredth of a second, looking out from Peter Griffin’s face.