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can't you buy 4K UHD blu-rays?

I actually do, love UHD blu-ray, can’t compare to anything downloaded actually. Level of compression and haptics, physicality, etc.

That said, it’s not great for the environment, probably still worse even when comparing with the ecological footprint of data centre infrastructure (download-and-keep would be even better than streaming actually). Not everything gets a (timely) release either.

Sometimes a quick download would be great. FWIW I’m on a 400mbit/s connection.

Obviously DRM free versions would be the cherry on top and would guarantee “portability” into the future (I’d still buy the n-th version of The Terminator in 8K in any case ;)

you can get UHD blueray rips in great quality from the right sites. unfortunately the best are mostly invite-only trackers with ratio requirements that make membership a pain in the ass, especially when dealing with such large files.

That's not DRM free.

They’re trivial to rip

MakeMKV makes it easy enough to backup those Blu-Ray videos into a DRM free format.

Not legally in the US.

If I'm going into criminal land either way I'm just going to pirate in the first place.

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