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Star.Wars.Episode.IV.A.New.Hope.1977.2160p.x265.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-NO-COKE-AD.torrent

If you want the good one, the title should just be Star Wars. The episode number and subtitle were added later; at that point who cares who provided the blue milk.

Agreed. Though "4K77" might appear in the file name.

It doesn't get censored, disappeared because the company tries to erase its history (cough Disney cough), and best of all, no ads!

I remember the thing that first drove me to piracy: previews. Nothing like trying to watch a VHS or DVD rental and being subjected to 10 minutes of ads. DVDs were the worst perpetrator, with bullshit unskippable ads before you even got to the menu.

When I make a rip of my legally owned DVDs, I don't even have to watch the stupid FBI warning screens that tell me not to distribute pirated movies

Yeah but it will have the pirate's targeted ads for VPNs or whatever hardcoded in.

They'll strip the ads when they strip the watermarks.

Is that an actual problem?

From my experience, somehow a decentralised illicit industry manages to hold better standards than the legal alternative.