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> I just moved into a place with no storage, which leaves me wondering what to do about my DVD collection. 2 options: - Rip them all and serve yourself using
by gwerbret 2y ago
> I just moved into a place with no storage, which leaves me wondering what to do about my DVD collection.
2 options:
- Rip them all and serve yourself using Jellyfin or Plex.
- If you don't want to go to the effort of ripping a hundred DVDs, you can, ah, take a trip to the high seas. Your legally-purchased DVDs serve as a license, for which the digital versions count as allowed "backups".
- tedivm 2y agoI'm in the process of ripping all of my media so I can play it with Jellyfin and get the disks out of my living room.
- lmm 2y ago> - If you don't want to go to the effort of ripping a hundred DVDs, you can, ah, take a trip to the high seas. Your legally-purchased DVDs serve as a license, for which the digital versions count as allowed "backups". This is a pattern of thinking with no legal basis. Over the years I've come around to "just pirate whatever you want". Not for music, where you can actually buy a digital copy and get a real file that you can download and play. But for non-indie video, may as well. The media/legal complex won't give you any credit for trying to be moral about it, and even accessing the DVDs you bought is usually a DMCA violation, so fuck them.
- rtkwe 2y agoThe second is very legally dubious especially if you're using torrents where you'd be seeding facilitating/making unauthorized copies even if the legal theory that you could download a copy instead of making your own held up.