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Buying bluray and dvd movies and CDs on ebay or craigslist (or better yet: finding in little free libraries while walking) and ripping them to disk and then ser

Buying bluray and dvd movies and CDs on ebay or craigslist (or better yet: finding in little free libraries while walking) and ripping them to disk and then serving locally (via jellyfin and mopidy) and selectively copying onto phone/table SD cards (e.g. before traveling) has gone pretty well for me. It's pretty cheap, has the convenience of digital media, feels like I have full control, and is legal. I often bring HDMI cords with me on vacation to hook up laptop to TV for showing. Really been loving whipper for CD encoding https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

BeefyMcGhee 3y ago
Ripping a movie you check out from a library is legal?? Also, you probably mean CD decoding, not encoding.
- acidburnNSA 3y ago
  Little free librarys are boxes of free things (books, movies, etc.) in many neighborhoods. They aren't actual libraries. You're expected to take something and leave something else, generally. I mean encoding in the sense that it takes PCM data and uses a compression algorithm (flac) to make losslessly encoded/compressed files capturing a perfect copy of what was on the disk. So sure, there's a decoding from CD grooves step and then an encoding to flac step technically.
passwordoops 3y ago
>ripping them to disk... and is legal I like your system and am thinking of setting up something similar. But, correct me if I'm wrong, I thought ripping was always illegal. Or is ripping for personal use without intent to distribute ok?
- acidburnNSA 3y ago
  Ripping a personal collection for personal use is legal.
  - slau 3y ago
    Depending on your current location, the size of the collection, whether you’re the original purchaser of the physical copies, and a million other variables.
  - rpdillon 3y ago
    But just to clarify: a DVD loaned by a library doesn't fall under a "personal collection", right? It seems like it would be hard to argue Fair Use if you're ripping a loaner.
    - acidburnNSA 3y ago
      True for real libraries. But little free libraries I mention are little neighborhood boxes with free stuff in them that you can take for keeps, at which it becomes part of your personal collection.

BeefyMcGhee 3y ago

Ripping a movie you check out from a library is legal?? Also, you probably mean CD decoding, not encoding.

acidburnNSA 3y ago
Little free librarys are boxes of free things (books, movies, etc.) in many neighborhoods. They aren't actual libraries. You're expected to take something and leave something else, generally. I mean encoding in the sense that it takes PCM data and uses a compression algorithm (flac) to make losslessly encoded/compressed files capturing a perfect copy of what was on the disk. So sure, there's a decoding from CD grooves step and then an encoding to flac step technically.

passwordoops 3y ago

>ripping them to disk... and is legal I like your system and am thinking of setting up something similar. But, correct me if I'm wrong, I thought ripping was always illegal. Or is ripping for personal use without intent to distribute ok?

acidburnNSA 3y ago
Ripping a personal collection for personal use is legal.
- slau 3y ago
  Depending on your current location, the size of the collection, whether you’re the original purchaser of the physical copies, and a million other variables.
- rpdillon 3y ago
  But just to clarify: a DVD loaned by a library doesn't fall under a "personal collection", right? It seems like it would be hard to argue Fair Use if you're ripping a loaner.
  - acidburnNSA 3y ago
    True for real libraries. But little free libraries I mention are little neighborhood boxes with free stuff in them that you can take for keeps, at which it becomes part of your personal collection.