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How do you usually go about acquiring the media? I know there are people that simply download movies via torrent, but what are the legal ways of buying video files of TV shows or movies, specially the more recent ones?


You’re limited to buying Blu rays and ripping to digital. Technically, that might not even be legal in the US because the digital millenium copyright act (DMCA) forbids circumventing DRM.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/circumventing-copyright-con...

> In the end, I'm mystified it's still so hard to buy older movies so I can watch them on my networked devices. You'd think Hollywood would've learned from the music industry that if you just let people legally pay for non-DRM media, and make the process easy and convenient (certainly more convenient than sailing the seven seas or ripping discs), people will pay.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/how-i-rip-dvds-and-bl...




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