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or just pirate it whenever.
Yeah seriously; never understood why a certain sector of people obsess over backing up their personal media, when you can literally download a perfect copy straight from the internet with no effort on your part. Especially when it comes to widely-available media like popular Hollywood films or video games that sold well. Just grab a torrent and toss the disc.
Some prefer different languages or options. For many animations like Disney and DreamWorks children like to watch in native language, while adults like to occasionally watch in original language. Native language as pirated version are hard to come by these days.
Pirated copies rarely contain any of the extras. Some people actually do watch those.
Extras are something I miss from modern movie distribution.
After finishing a movie you could watch the deleted scenes and behind the scenes and such. I rarely did the commentary watch of the movie but it was cool that it was there.
They're also generally lower quality
If you only need popular shows in english sure.
Plenty of older things which where made for localized television cannot be found online but can be found in public libraries.
And some hard to find movies can be lost forever because nobody have them anymore
Well, those online copy's either originate from someone sharing their backed up collection or a camera pointed at the TV.
Most of what I download are webrips, though.
Sure, but the point is someone’s already done it.
Because these people often don't want to pirate. In Germany the government now fines you for piracy, using a common VPN isn't enough anymore. Then there are other factors such as remasters and changes.
Fight Club, The Matrix, The Terminator and Star Wars are all popular films but there are several versions out there with different color grades and special effects. So I completely understand why this subset of people would want to keep their version of the movie.
Why isn't a common zero-logs VPN enough? How would the government know? Encrypted VPN traffic can't be decrypted, at least until we have quantum computers, right?
or even a seedbox in another country.
Are they cracking down on I2P?
You also have to deal with whatever settings the uploader decided to use when they transcoded the original rip. Which can mess with the color grade and contrast ratio, the hdr grading, introduce noise, and otherwise fuck with the video quality and audio quality.
Most people won't care, but to some it matters.
remuxes are not hard to find.
Yes, and you can find perfect exact copies of all versions of these movies if you look in the right places
I’m digitizing my SO’s cd collection now. Half are normal cds. 1/4 are promo or weird stuff from bands that barely existed. The rest are mix tapes or unreleased things from when they worked as a music journalist in college.
Sounds like a pretty interesting collection to me!
Sometimes access isn't so reliable. Maybe you want to disappear into the woods with a few hundred thousand novels.