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I'm currently setting up a Plex in my home to play our families "most popular" movies and I genuinely want to buy these movies, pay for them, and just have them
by _fat_santa 2y ago
I'm currently setting up a Plex in my home to play our families "most popular" movies and I genuinely want to buy these movies, pay for them, and just have them but I can't do that so I have to pirate them.
I wonder how many others are in the same camp as me, I used to be a pirate back when I was a teenager but now I can genuinely afford this stuff and always prefer to pay versus pirate, but in the case of home movies I just can't do that.
I think the studios will be very surprised if they just opened the floodgates and let folks pay for and download movies, because I think a large chunk of us are like me, only pirating because there's no other avenue to acquire the movie.
- rpdillon 2y agoTotally agree. GOG for movies would get a lot of business from me!
- carlosjobim 2y agoMaybe 0,00000001% of the general population. And 90% of posters here.
- delecti 2y agoAre there truly that many movies which aren't released on physical media? I've also recently set up Plex, and just rip blu-ray copies to my NAS for it. Haven't failed to find any movies I've looked for.
- whycome 2y agoMaybe they want to buy them digitally? Ripping from bluray involves a whole other process (hardware, software, os, time)
- belmead 2y ago> I'm currently setting up a Plex in my home to play our families "most popular" movies and I genuinely want to buy these movies, pay for them, and just have them but I can't do that so I have to pirate them. > have to Can you elaborate, please?
- alexgaribay 2y agoFor me, I check my used bookstores for movies that aren't easy to find anymore. I've had good luck so far. Most used movies including Blu-Ray are around $6 USD.