You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021)

Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by acidburnNSA on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:28PM (#37805719)

Buying bluray and dvd movies and CDs on ebay or craigslist (or better yet: finding in little free libraries while walking) and ripping them to disk and then serving locally (via jellyfin and mopidy) and selectively copying onto phone/table SD cards (e.g. before traveling) has gone pretty well for me. It's pretty cheap, has the convenience of digital media, feels like I have full control, and is legal. I often bring HDMI cords with me on vacation to hook up laptop to TV for showing.

Really been loving whipper for CD encoding https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

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Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by BeefyMcGhee on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:48PM (#37805851)

Ripping a movie you check out from a library is legal??

Also, you probably mean CD decoding, not encoding.

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Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by acidburnNSA on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:51PM (#37805865)

Little free librarys are boxes of free things (books, movies, etc.) in many neighborhoods. They aren't actual libraries. You're expected to take something and leave something else, generally.

I mean encoding in the sense that it takes PCM data and uses a compression algorithm (flac) to make losslessly encoded/compressed files capturing a perfect copy of what was on the disk. So sure, there's a decoding from CD grooves step and then an encoding to flac step technically.

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Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by passwordoops on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:51PM (#37805860)

>ripping them to disk... and is legal

I like your system and am thinking of setting up something similar. But, correct me if I'm wrong, I thought ripping was always illegal. Or is ripping for personal use without intent to distribute ok?

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Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by acidburnNSA on Saturday October 07, 2023 @05:53PM (#37805882)

Ripping a personal collection for personal use is legal.

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Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by slau on Saturday October 07, 2023 @07:38PM (#37806490)

Depending on your current location, the size of the collection, whether you’re the original purchaser of the physical copies, and a million other variables.

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Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by rpdillon on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:47AM (#37810946)

But just to clarify: a DVD loaned by a library doesn't fall under a "personal collection", right? It seems like it would be hard to argue Fair Use if you're ripping a loaner.

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Re:You Don't Really Own the Digital Movies You Buy (2021) by acidburnNSA on Sunday October 08, 2023 @11:22AM (#37811268)

True for real libraries. But little free libraries I mention are little neighborhood boxes with free stuff in them that you can take for keeps, at which it becomes part of your personal collection.

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