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Just buy them and rip them. This is Hacker News, after all.

Who's ripping DVDs in 2026? Just print a photo of each frame and flick through.

I still rip DVDs, a few a month. No streaming services in our household, so DVDs are how we get multilingual versions of things.

And I can rip the special features.

I was ripping DVDs before most of HN had touched a keyboard. I’ve stilll got my decss tshirt.

It’s far easier to acquire them from the internet.

Piracy is a service problem.