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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello guys, I'm curious about this meme, is there some literature where I can find someguides to test this? Thanks.

You wouldn't pay for 4k Netflix and then download a Chromebook recovery image in order to extract the aarch64 widevine com blobs and then patch in support for 16k pages and then apply miscellaneous glibc compat workarounds and then spoof your useragent, and install a browser extension to unlock HD resolutions, to legally watch media in only 1080p

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I removed my downvote after realizing you're actually right, in a sense. In scene terms, a "webrip" can be a screen recording, whereas a "web-dl" by definition isn't. By these definitions,

Things are usually ripped by recording the screen

could likely be true, even moreso if you count "recording hdmi stream after breaking hdcp" as a screen recording.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most rips are webrips. At least the first ones. Then once the DVDs/BluRays come out they're usually remuxes of those. Very few organizations know how to breake the web DRM thing, and it takes a while.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Rips are rips, with a degradation in quality compared to the captured source. WEB-DLs are the source itself (of a chosen resolution), with no degradation.