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Why won’t you just buy a $100 USB hdd with whatever TB (3? 4?) it is these days, and store your movies there? Is it some legal issue here? Is the optical disk s
by walteweiss 3y ago
Why won’t you just buy a $100 USB hdd with whatever TB (3? 4?) it is these days, and store your movies there? Is it some legal issue here? Is the optical disk somehow different?
- xp84 3y agoNot really a direct comparison. Yes they can store it on a hard drive, but where are they going to acquire the actual bytes? A cheap optical drive and a secondhand disc is a pretty good strategy and carries zero risk of legal issues because it leaves no trace outside your own PC, as opposed to say, BitTorrent. It’s just possibly much less convenient if the disc is hard to come by. Also (IANAL) but if you acquire the disc, back it up and then keep or destroy the original, it’s even fully legally sound.
- beej71 3y agoYes, I use the DVD-ROM to rip, and store them on a cheap HD.