Remember the days before streaming services were a thing? Yep, basically that: as in people would burrow a rented copy from a friend who paid money to obtain a official copy on DVD from blockbuster then ripping the contents into those blank DVDs (the white ones) meaning they've pirated a copy for home use but it's still a "torrent". I remember watching a ripped copy of Finding Nemo (or other kids movies from that era) when I was younger.

The same with "lending" a purchased copy from a store a friend has proceeding to rip the DVD content onto a blank DVD having a copy. Then there are CAM's (pirates using a video camera to record the film upon being shown in theaters) usually they do this around the debut (new releases in cinema) by sneaking a camcorder but the footage is shit (I remember back in 2010, I've seen Alice in Wonderland via CAM and it sucked due to bad resolution and audio).

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

why

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

If you were curious about how bad it was the only ethical thing to do from a consumer standpoint was to pirate it because why would we reward Combia Pictures for such a crap product?

[–] mosscap@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

It was morbin time

[–] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 points 16 hours ago

Yes, that's what I was thinking while I watched it.