[__david__]

Physical media has DRM but it's pretty much completely cracked. I can rip Blurays and even UHD Blurays now and end up with a non-drm-ed movie. It's not nearly as convenient as streaming (initially) but I can "own" the movie in a non-drm-ed form for as long as I can keep the bits alive.

[colejohnson66]

How can you rip UHD (4K) movies? MakeMKV doesn’t support them last I used it (a month ago)

[__david__]

MakeMKV does support them, but you need a UHD drive with specific firmware. On the forums you can figure out which drive will work the best and which is the easiest to flash old firmware on. Either way requires a hacked firmware updater because the drive makers have to give it their best shot to avoid downgrades (to satisfy DRM licenses).

Also you can decide between old stock firmware or new firmware that has been modified by the MakeMKV team. I opted for the old stock firmware, I'm not really sure what the modified firmware buys you.

It seemed overwhelming at first, but after an hour of reading and searching on Amazon I figured out what the easiest route was. Once the drive arrived, the flashing was simple—I plugged the drive into my Windows box and ran the flashing code, then plugged it into my Linux Plex server and it worked right away.