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Is there a good way to pay for a download of movies or TV, or should I go back to buying physical and ripping?
Real debrid?
Yeah, if it's in "The Cloud" it's NOT yours and it can disappear or be modified without your knowledge or consent at any time.
Buy some external storage and keep copies of everything you care about.
Yeah, got rid of all my CDs a few years ago and now I'm buying them back a bit at the time because of all the stuff that is going out of print and you can no longer stream.
Should have just stored everything.
The other concern is censorship. Essentially a movie that you bought is on a server and then someone's decided that words, content, or scenes are no longer appropriate. The video, song, etc, is different from the original and without any notification. The old scenes get sent to the memory hole. Oh dear Winston, I fear we will meet soon!
Piracy is pretty much the only way the original Star Wars movies are still available.
"I am altering the movie. Pray I don't alter it any further." - George Lucas, probably.
RIP the D&D episode of community
