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When it comes to watching movies, I will take the path of least resistance. Not even for moral or philosophical reasons; I'm just lazy. Netflix/Amazon/[stream
by 2bitencryption 10y ago
When it comes to watching movies, I will take the path of least resistance. Not even for moral or philosophical reasons; I'm just lazy. Netflix/Amazon/[streaming site] is easier than pirating is easier than buying a Bluray disk at a store, so that's the order I'll do things in if I want to see the film badly enough.
- badwolf 10y agoI don't even own a DVD/Bluray player. If I can't find it on a streaming site (whether subscription service like Netflix, or buying it, ala Amazon) Then... :-/ Hoist the Jolly Roger. It's frustrating wanting to give money for something, and not being able to.
- vocatus_gate 10y agoI have a friend who has an approach I like. He buys the Blu-Ray from Amazon, usually used if possible, then immediately goes and pirates it on to his home media server. When the disc arrives, he tosses it in a box that sits in the corner and never touches it again. This way he made a legal purchase and exchanged money, but still gets a DRM-free high quality copy to move around to his various devices.
- i336_ 10y agoThat's a really cool approach, but taking the time to rip the disc means you get the extras and other features that were on the disk, along with a significantly higher quality encode of the content. If the focus is on quantity and diversity, I can understand just getting a decent-bitrate MKV or MP4 of just the film, but it might be worth it to see if there are Blu-Ray rips of the media in question "around" before just grabbing what's out there; at the very least, complete (and perhaps even decrypted, since that's finicky) rips have reasonable value on private trackers. I'm guessing this sort of thing has probably already been taken into account.