Re:Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app
by 9991 on Sunday May 26, 2024 @08:55PM
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It doesn’t require copyright infringement. If you wanted, you could buy and rip blurays.
Re:Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app
by xethos on Sunday May 26, 2024 @09:35PM
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Not OP, but I'm not going to pay money and spend more time and effort to still break the law for the eventual-same result. Ripping DVDs and Bluray disks requires breaking the encryption. The keys have leaked, it's relatively easy, but it's still objectively illegal here in the great white North.
Everything is in one place (not spread across different apps), the UI is consistent and not buggy (official apps can be terrible at times). All they do is put in a request to dad and their TV show or movie appears shortly after in the "newly added" section on the TV. Not only that, but content doesn't disappear from one service without warning. It's always going to be there, and I get to curate the kids content.
It require piracy, and the kids don't know that, but it's the only way to get this setup.