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nc17 on Jan 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Hollywood Execs Privately Say About Netflix

An interesting side effect is that copying a dvd is relatively trivial. Saving a streamed movie is harder and you have no motivation to do it.

dkl on Jan 18, 2011 [–]

And for most of us, the reason we rip are: the unskippable content on DVDs and ease of use. So far, netflix watch instantly satisfies both of those, so I can see not needing to rip DVD at some point in the future, except for DVD's I buy (I'd watch the ripped copy, not the physical one).

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