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Netflix DVDs could be ripped and shared via P2P with ease. Netflix DRM playback is harder to deal with.
by 29athrowaway 3y ago
Netflix DVDs could be ripped and shared via P2P with ease.
Netflix DRM playback is harder to deal with.
- skeaker 3y agoIs this true? A friend tells me that torrents for new episodes of ongoing stream-only shows are typically up within minutes to hours of being released.
- 29athrowaway 3y agoLife finds a way.
- the_biot 3y agoI can confirm that. We must have the same friend.
- Genwald 3y agoBoth are true. There is more significant DRM on most streaming services than DVD, but also pirates are still consistently beating it. Hard to say if that had much of an impact on this decision though.
- pimlottc 3y agoI highly doubt Netflix DVDs were a high source of P2P rips. By the time something's available on DVD, it's already been ripped by scene groups from pre-release sources. If anything, DVD ripping probably helped Netflix, as subscribers used it to build their own private archives.