If pirates were cared about preservation, they would not dare compress the rip from the disc.
And yet, they do. They throw away detail as they please. That’s preservation?
And yet, they do. They throw away detail as they please. That’s preservation?
Compression is needed on torrent sites because few peers are interesting in downloading and seeding a 60+GB raw file of a movie if the 12GB mkv looks just as good on the 1080p Wallmart monitor.
There are of course also RAW rips of blu-rays out there but mostly for AAA IPs like Star Wars, LotR, Matrix, etc, not for niche content that have a reduced audience.