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DVD, Blueray, VHS? I’ve never heard of those torrent sites before 🏴☠️
Burn your “acquired media” to physical media now folks. The powers that be are purposely limiting physical media so the have an excuse to phase it out
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Your local Library has videos.
We’re fast approaching a time where owning media is considered a luxury.
Only if you pay for them 🏴☠️
We’re running out of safe havens to host, I feel. Countries that won’t submit to the industry’s will. With the additional clamping down on material not government-sanctioned recently, with invasive biometric and ID checks, it certainly feels like the wrong direction.
I wonder how tough it would be for someone to start a DVD cottage industry, replicating the old Netflix model, where you mail hard copies of pirated movies upon request? I already order hard copies of movies from Amazon if I know I want them in my collection permanently, but damn, sometimes those are pricey as hell
Good luck doing that at all inconspicuously considering you’d need to spin up disc processing plants or somehow get your hands on thousands of DVD-/+R blanks.
(I’m pretty sure if you tried to burn a DVD-Video disc with M-DISC media, that it wouldn’t be readable in most players).
Another business plan dashed!
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Nah I don’t miss having to deal with region zones, they are such a pain… sure you can rip the disk, but you’re still left with a disk you bought yet can’t use because your players are deliberately sabotaged to not work.
I don’t miss using physical media either, they take up so much space… I’d need a mansion if I wanted to replace the content of my media server with physical media.
Region zones do indeed suck, but I installed custom firmware on my PS3 to remove the DVD/Blu-Ray region lock, and now it’s a non-issue.
And I use disc binders for most of my collection, unless it’s something I really want to display. Long-term, once my collection is complete, I do plan to rip everything.
