> a personal collection of movies that you painstakingly ripped on your own I would argue that such a device does indeed represent painstakingly ripping your o

> a personal collection of movies that you painstakingly ripped on your own I would argue that such a device does indeed represent painstakingly ripping your own movies. After all, it is slow - I think it's safe to assume it takes at least 1:1 to rip a blu ray. And it will take you a long time to watch your collection even once. There are two difficulties. First, the fact that people might never own, or stop owning the blu-rays they've ripped. This is in part mitigated by the fact that such a device would be expensive, and as such its a luxury item not a piracy item. Second, you'll have the stray ornery hacker who'll want to do something more with the device, and dammit I paid for it so its mine! They'll insist on seeding torrents with it or cloning the hard drives and selling them or something and honestly I don't think this is mitigable.