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How about this then: digitizing
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 04:22 PM EST

Since you don't want the ability to backup, how about:

    The ability to store a copy of the movie on your terrabyte drive!
Frankly, I'd love to have my movies packed away in safe storage. A copy of each and every one of them on the hard drive of my computer. My computer with an appropriate video card plugged directly into my 52" wide-screen tv.

And with just a few seconds and the click of a button be watching the particular movie from my library.

In short: the freedom to take that DRM'd version and cut a high quality digital copy for personal use.

I've got over 1,000 store purchased movies in my library in dvd/blueray format. Given my library is on the second floor - I'm actually concerned with the weight factor and putting in more book cases to hold more movies.

So yea... in my case: it really would be extraordinarily convenient to have a full quality digital library that I could easily browse through and select from. A "DJ" software app that could be used to select a list of movies for viewing would be even better: for those Red Dwarf marathon weekends for example.

Is the DJ app required? Nope! I'm a proud Linux User. I can initiate the viewing of a movie from the command line. That means I can easily script a list of movies to be viewed one after the other thereby creating the basic command line driven fully functional DJ app in just a few lines of code.

RAS

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Backup legally purchased DVDs?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 05:49 PM EST
No need for a dog. A 5-yr-old is quite capable of scratching
any DVD on his/her own. Like when (s)he is trying to erase
the fingerprints by rubbing on the carpet.

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Why? So I can skip the commercials, previews, FBI warnings, etc.
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 09:20 PM EST
On more than one occasion, I have aborted my first viewing of a newly-purchased
DVD movie to burn a copy that strips out all of that nonsense that locks out
selected user controls.

And you can bet the previews, advertisements, etc. do NOT get replicated to the
new copy.

It's MY DVD-player, dagnabbit! I WILL skip the materials that I do not wish to
view.

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You don't purchase DVD's.. You license the media on them..
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 07 2013 @ 08:22 AM EST
Somehow they get away with it, but what you are paying for is a license to view
the materials. And the license does not allow backing up or viewing on Linux.

I suppose they would have to prove damages if they wanted to come after you, but
I guess that's why they have that crappy UltraViolet stuff to show that they
have a way to license digital copies. So all of your DVD rips are taking food
off their children's plates.

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Backup legally purchased DVDs?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 07 2013 @ 07:21 PM EST

Why would you need to do that?

a) The DVD was worn out by watching it too often;
b) The original DVD won't play in the DVD Player, but the backup made by copying the disc will play;
c) The DVD player broke the DVD. (Brought to you from the company that installed root kits on millions of computers, and the only "punishment" was a check for US$4.00 to consumers who knew about the class action lawsuit);

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