Your device> HDMI cable> £10 HDCP bypass box >HDMI cable> your recording/capture device. You’ve paid for it, you might as well make a copy. You will have to watch it through though to copy.
I fucking hope there’s a lawsuit. They’re probably leaning on some understanding that by agreeing to their ToS, you agree that you don’t own any of your content. But i feel like that also betrays the common person’s understanding of how digital content works, or at least how it should work. Basically anything you cant download DRM-free and back up yourself is subject to disappear at any time.
If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.
“We sincerely thank you for your continued support”
I know it’s not the main thing to take issue with. But the insincerity of those ‘sincere thanks’ pisses me off to no end. Like they magically found a way to claim we support them by saying so. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining, at least be upfront about fucking me over.
I always fume with anger when some website captions their cookie banner “We care about your privacy”. No you fucking don’t and the dialog where you have to manually uncheck 10+ individual cookie types and also their fucking"legitimate interest" (no, there isn’t any legitimate interest about my data).
And also when some company whose only purpose is to make money sends me e-mails beginning with "Hello, ". We aren’t friends, we are business partners. If I’ll write you about let’s say a RMA, I won’t address you “David” either. Keep it professional, will ya, ya smeee-heeee.
this is why I still buy discs
Uh… I would simply pirate the content wholesale.
Somebody has to buy them to get the best quality rips.
I worry that if they stop selling Blu-Rays, there will be literally no way to get media in full uncompressed (minimally compressed? idk, just whatever makes Blu-Rays need like 50 GB) quality. No more BD Remuxes, just shitty WEBRips and maybe some WEB-DLs
https://tidal.com/sound-quality
That’s just one place to get HQ music. It’s not exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s part of the solution.
I doubt they’d ever do something like that for movies and tv. Blu-Ray quality can’t really be streamed and a download would be 20-50 GB which they probably just don’t want to offer or else they would have by now.
do purchased digital movies have high quality? Like the ones in the screenshot? Or on iTunes? zdon’t they have 4k digital movies?
Buy discs, rip the contents, seed torrents to share with comrades worldwide (please do this, I just want a HQ copy of Footfalls from the Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker soundtrack but I can’t find it anywhere)
Here you go comrade
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary, or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music.
The torrent uploader Tigole (from the release group QxR) usually includes special features and commentaries on their torrents. HeVK, who uploads a lot of great horror films, includes commentaries as well.
Pirates don’t get the special features, commentary
Hey some of them include those as extras!
or fun 35 seconds long looping menu music
okay true :sadness: