• dkppunk@piefed.social
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    21 hours ago

    Thrift stores are great for this. Folks have been getting rid of a lot of Blu-rays in my area. I got a bunch of Disney movies recently for a dollar a piece, movies like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid.

    And check your local library. I have all of Star Trek Lower Decks ripped from discs I borrowed from my library. I’m working on X-Files now.

    I’m also not at all against downloading movies and shows after I have purchased them digitally. I’m not against piracy in general though.

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      20 hours ago

      Will they eventually kill off the encryption keys for your blu-ray discs? I don’t know for sure, but I think there was some kind of online handshake required by these players.

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          17 hours ago

          Yeah, but that’s only if you want to rip them on a PC isn’t it? Your domestic Blu-Ray player will presumably lose its keys eventually and become a brick.

          Edit: Googled it, no known ‘time bomb’ but players can potentially miss out on firmware updates and be unable to play some discs as a result.