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Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

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Re: Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

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Post by bethekidyouwant »

Nobody got a letter for copying a DVD at their home… I suppose if you sold them on the street corner you could maybe get in trouble maybe he’s confusing this with downloading movies which seems odd because he’s writing this as if he existed then

Re: Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

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Post by peterspath »

kyrra wrote: post #4

It's also nice that this has been solved for Blu-ray as well. You just have to buy the correct kind of Blu-ray drive, and there's custom firmware out there to flash on the drive and let you rip any Blu-ray.

What drive would that be? Asking for a friend…

Re: Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

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Post by lloydatkinson »

triyambakam wrote: post #6

> The kind of thing every kid with a Dell tower in 2003 spent an entire weekend trying to figure out. OK Claude.

At this point I don't even read Medium, Substack, or any of the other slop monger sites.
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