You need to download a 50 gig file to get anywhere near the same quality as the Disk, the reality is if no one paid for movies then we wouldn't have them would we. Never seen something so childish in my life, pirating isn't free either. Good download mediums require you pay...Private torrents you would need a seed box, Usenet....you have to pay.
Video bit rate is no where near the same on the scene rips, especially when it comes to the Star Wars trilogy.
Infact the groups that rip these movies for you, all tell you to pay for your shite.
Wow calm down there Sir
I'm not going to get into what services may or may not be available for obtaining copyrighted material but on the basis that not all shared material is copyrighted i.e. these sharing protocols are used to share legally also I see no harm in discussing what is quite an interesting subject.
50Gb is about the capacity of a BlueRay Disc most include a shed load of stuff beyond the movie with a single audio. It's digital content, you can either copy the image bit for bit including the empty space in which case you would get a 50GB file,
or you could copy the actual data, much like you could *.ISO a disk, then you'd just have an exact copy of the disk without a whole heap of empty data
or you could strip out the unrequired audio tracks, sub-titles and other extra content, then make a bit for bit copy.
In all those cases you'd have largely the same digital video and audio data as the original.
Or you could use a number of compression techniques to reduce the size of the content, much like ripping a CD to MP3 or converting a *.BMP image to *.JPG, in this case loss of something is highly likely, although not inevitable depending on how it's done and much like audio whether you can tell the difference is going to depend on how you view it. If you have a high end setup you might well be able to tell but like comparing FLAC to MP3 on your mobile it doesn't always matter.
As for copying music or video being a huge threat to the industry history tells a different story, the release of the compact cassette or VHS video was accompanied by the same cries from the industry and you've been able to obtain MP3s from the net for almost as long as its existed yet the profits of the big film makers and music production companies grows and grows and the amount of content along with it.
As is already happening the industries are slowly accepting that people don't want to wait for the content, Cinema to DVD time is reducing and music is becoming more widely streamed with file download rather than CD being almost the norm (only today another streaming service was announced) The industries will evolve over time to fulfill peoples needs providing a better service in both quality, price and availability than the illegal trade and that trade will dwindle.
I see parallels with drug supply, few people buy counterfeit alcohol or tobacco but everyone who smokes weed (for example) in this country is potentially funding people trafficking and a whole raft of other unacceptable criminal activity, let's not get all moral about taping the Top 40 off Radio 1
Yea I don't agree in pirating anyway I thought it was against the BLUA for us to discuss possibly illegal activity?
Evey
what like taking drugs ??? you do love to jump on the band wagon when you think you have an opportunity to have a pop at me
BLUA here for anyone to reference
If you're not PMing other's complaining about me your posting little digs, I shan't PM you because apparently I'm
constantly doing so
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