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by SmellyGeekBoy 2322 days ago
It's mind boggling that they continue to make life so difficult for paying customers when it's possible to go to a site like Pirate Bay and get a bit-perfect rip in less than 15 minutes without Hollywood making a single penny.

Just let me buy DRM-free movies and download them to my NAS - and without all the tracking bullshit!
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willis936 2321 days ago
Is it though? I have never seen a bit perfect rip on tpb. I have paid for sketchy software to have access to blu-ray ripping software to get around this while trying to play with high bitrate material and understand a bit more about it. 25 GB is the smallest a blu ray gets, with most being 50 GB (and potentially up to 300 GB, though I have not seen this personally). UHD blu ray goes from 50 GB to 100 GB. No one is ripping these things, and certainly no one is seeding them, and most certainly no one is leeching them. Maybe on private trackers. I wouldn’t know.
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crtasm 2321 days ago
>No one is ripping these things, and certainly no one is seeding them, and most certainly no one is leeching them.

I searched for 'remux' (which means original video+audio data, no quality loss) on the rarbg site mentioned in another reply to your comment. People are definitely ripping, seeding and downloading them.

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gruez 2321 days ago
I wouldn’t say no one is seeding/leeching those things. You can find plenty of remuxes on rarbg (a public tracker), and they’re well seeded a few days after release (after the initial influx of leechers are gone) up to a few months later (before people start deleting it from their machines).
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izacus 2321 days ago
There are plenty of sources that provide so-called remuxes of BR content, which usually are sufficiently high bitrate.
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willis936 2321 days ago
Which is fine and well. "Good enough" is a soft target and blu-ray transcodes are higher quality than every other option (except for the blu rays themselves). My point was that if you want the highest available quality, physical media is still the most available and convenient way to get it.
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tpush 2321 days ago
Torrenting is sadly impractical in some countries :/
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