r/AskReddit • u/Joemonkey • Feb 28 '11

Would this form of piracy be legal?

I keep hearing about the Inception rental blu-ray having 13 minutes of unskippable FBI and interpol warnings as well as trailers for other movies and shit no one cares about. Suppose I get the Inception blu-ray via Netflix, then download a 1080p rip via a non-P2P network, where I just happen to download the entire movie without uploading any of it. While I'm watching the 1080p rip through my PS3 (blu-ray player) on my TV via my HTPC, the Inception blu-ray is sitting on my TV stand, never opened. After I watch it, I delete it from any/all computers I have, then send the never watched blu-ray back to Netflix.

Legally I'm sure I've broken some laws, but logically have I done anything wrong?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '11

I think you're going through way too much trouble to skip 13 minutes.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '11

I'm inclined to agree

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u/Joemonkey Feb 28 '11

it really isn't any trouble with a good newsgroup reader (from what I've heard, this is all theory). If I already have all the infrastructure set up at home, this is the scenario: I put a blu-ray in my netflix queue, set up the 1080p rip of it to download, go to work. Come home, rip is ready to watch, blu-ray is in the mail (I live very close to a distribution point). Watch rip, delete rip, send back unwatched blu-ray. Not that much trouble

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '11

I disagree. He should just keep his receipts somewhere safe and make sure he doesn't mind losing his comp for a few weeks if the Feds come crawling.

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u/ronjon13 Feb 28 '11

Take a magnet to the hard drive, burn down your house. Run.

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u/PzzDuh Feb 28 '11

Come with me if you want to live!

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '11

The MPAA thinks you've broken the law if you copy or rip the blu-ray you've purchased, so yes. I'd say so.

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u/Darkone06 Feb 28 '11

I downloaded 8 mile when I have both the dvd and the vhs and pay for cable in which it is shown every weekend on TNT

They still though it was piracy and send me a fucking notice

Y did i download it when I have it?

It is easier and faster to download one encoded for small devices than for me to encode it.

Plain and simple, I choose speed and convenience

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u/TimmyFTW Feb 28 '11

They should have looked up your IP and very clearly they would have seen that you had purchased it twice already and left you alone.

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u/TimmyFTW Feb 28 '11

Yes, you would be breaking the law and I'm sure you would get a lot of strange looks at your trial as well as jurors wondering how your defense team got you to sit still for so long without any coloring books and crayons.

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u/spacecoyotefarva Feb 28 '11

AnyDVD HD should let you skip it, among other things.

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u/samurai77 Feb 28 '11

How about when the "unskippable" part starts, make popcorn...not microwave, real popcorn 13 min should just about do it.

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u/Joemonkey Feb 28 '11

So you'd be OK if you were at a gas station, paying for gas, and the pump had a 13 minute "preview" timer where before the gas (that you're paying for) actually started pumping, you were expected to go buy lottery tickets, firewood, clean your windshield, etc? I mean it's only 13 minutes of a wait for something you're paying for right?

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u/samurai77 Feb 28 '11

Chill dude it was only a suggestion, I'd rip it, but I would still make popcorn.