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Is it wrong to pirate movies I've purchased digitally and load onto my Plex server? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just would like to have a discussion on the topic. I've purchased around 20ish movies/shows on Vudu, and my wife has grown to be unhappy with Vudu's UI and especially how the watch progress works. I am curious what some others thoughts on this are. My initial thoughts are I recognize I've purchased a license to watch the content, but feel that because I've purchased it I should have the right to retain total control over it and do what I please. I would like to purchase movies on physical media from now on, but wouldn't like to repurchase all the same movies and shows again when I've already paid for them

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

::: you can download it off internet archive

you need:

windows - maybe, ive only tried on windows
internet archive account
adobe digital editions
calibre with alf's de-drm plug-in

borrow the book

put this link into your browser and replace bookid with the identifier https://archive.org/services/loans/loan/?action=media_url&identifier=BOOKID&format=pdf&redirect=1

you should get acsm file open it in adobe digital editions you now have drm-protected pdf in my documents/my digital editions/

add this pdf to calibre (with the plug in installed)

now you have drm-free pdf

:::

easier solution - just search it up with a book search engine