Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them

• Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah seriously; never understood why a certain sector of people obsess over backing up their personal media, when you can literally download a perfect copy straight from the internet with no effort on your part. Especially when it comes to widely-available media like popular Hollywood films or video games that sold well. Just grab a torrent and toss the disc.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pirated copies rarely contain any of the extras. Some people actually do watch those.

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    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Extras are something I miss from modern movie distribution.

      After finishing a movie you could watch the deleted scenes and behind the scenes and such. I rarely did the commentary watch of the movie but it was cool that it was there.

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    • LaggyKar@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re also generally lower quality

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  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, those online copy’s either originate from someone sharing their backed up collection or a camera pointed at the TV.

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    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most of what I download are webrips, though.

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    • DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure, but the point is someone’s already done it.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you only need popular shows in english sure.

    Plenty of older things which where made for localized television cannot be found online but can be found in public libraries.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m digitizing my SO’s cd collection now. Half are normal cds. 1/4 are promo or weird stuff from bands that barely existed. The rest are mix tapes or unreleased things from when they worked as a music journalist in college.

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    • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like a pretty interesting collection to me!

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  • musubibreakfast@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because these people often don’t want to pirate. In Germany the government now fines you for piracy, using a common VPN isn’t enough anymore. Then there are other factors such as remasters and changes.

    Fight Club, The Matrix, The Terminator and Star Wars are all popular films but there are several versions out there with different color grades and special effects. So I completely understand why this subset of people would want to keep their version of the movie.

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    • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You also have to deal with whatever settings the uploader decided to use when they transcoded the original rip. Which can mess with the color grade and contrast ratio, the hdr grading, introduce noise, and otherwise fuck with the video quality and audio quality.

      Most people won’t care, but to some it matters.

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        remuxes are not hard to find.

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    • pirat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In Germany the government now fines you for piracy, using a common VPN isn’t enough anymore.

      Why isn’t a zero-logs VPN enough? How would the government know? Encrypted VPN traffic can’t be decrypted, at least until we have quantum computers, right?

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        or even a seedbox in another country.

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    • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are they cracking down on I2P?

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    • exchange12rocks@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fight Club, The Matrix, The Terminator and Star Wars

      Yes, and you can find perfect exact copies of all versions of these movies if you look in the right places

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  • Diurnambule@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And some hard to find movies can be lost forever because nobody have them anymore

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sometimes access isn’t so reliable. Maybe you want to disappear into the woods with a few hundred thousand novels.

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  • desperado@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some prefer different languages or options. For many animations like Disney and DreamWorks children like to watch in native language, while adults like to occasionally watch in original language. Native language as pirated version are hard to come by these days.

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