Pirated copies rarely contain any of the extras. Some people actually do watch those.
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Psythik@lemm.ee 20 hours agoYeah 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.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours 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.
LaggyKar@programming.dev 14 hours ago
They’re also generally lower quality
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 16 hours 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.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Well, those online copy’s either originate from someone sharing their backed up collection or a camera pointed at the TV.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
Most of what I download are webrips, though.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Sure, but the point is someone’s already done it.
musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 18 hours 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.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 17 hours 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.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
remuxes are not hard to find.
pirat@lemmy.world 7 hours 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?
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
or even a seedbox in another country.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 7 hours ago
Are they cracking down on I2P?
exchange12rocks@lemm.ee 7 hours 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
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 20 hours 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.
pirat@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Sounds like a pretty interesting collection to me!
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 14 hours ago
And some hard to find movies can be lost forever because nobody have them anymore
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Sometimes access isn’t so reliable. Maybe you want to disappear into the woods with a few hundred thousand novels.
desperado@feddit.nl 4 hours 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.