Yo /g/, I've been wondering for a while now...
If any of you haven't heard of Redbox, it's a company that's installed Fridge-sized movie-vending machines, that log it's users through credit card, so that you can return a movie to a redbox different than the one you got it from.
Recently, I've been ripping these movies from the discs. As illegal as it is... Are there devices in the discs that enable when the disc is being ripped? Is there anything on the disc, that, when I return it, the vendor has no way of knowing I ripped the movie? It's been putting me on edge lately.
You can download a movie faster than you can decrypt and rip it from a DVD.
Don't even bother unless you're ripping something rare like an anime OVA dvd that came packed in with the limited edition of a manga.
>>51765236
There might be DRM on the movie itself. But other than that, no.
>Are there devices in the discs
no.
Use open-source ripper. Look though source thoroughly before ripping. Then you know your good. Most likely you can't prove what the source was if you tweak some of the encoding options.
>>51765269
This.
Why bother paying to rent it from redox and rip it when you could just torrent it in the first place, spend nothing, and end up with a digital copy to do whatever with?
>>51765236
Do you know how DVDs work senpai
A ripper does nothing different than a DVD Player
Except saves the data to a file instead of streaming it
>>51765308
This, again.
If you are really worried and feel compelled to spend money, then pay for a VPN or seedbox to protect against those meaningless DMCA letters.
>>51765308
>>51765269
You never know how a pirate upload of a movie has been encoded to "improve" the picture quality.
DVD at least is a standard.
Blu-ray is better tho
>>51765269
>>51765308
>>51765652
Because scene regulations are largely shit.
>>51765652
Usually they make note of it in the NFO
A lot of those dvds are probably created specifically for the service and purposely lacking features like what Netflix has.
>>51765770
Aside from DRM, what features?
>>51765236
>>51765965
Ooh! Two windows open on one screen! Great bait mate!
>>51765923
They might not come with extras. That's it.
