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    <p>LOLOL.  Thanks for the laugh.  I needed it.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/7/22 05:48, Snyder, Alexander J
      via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Step 1: Rip DVD (MakeMKV, or others)
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          <div dir="auto">Step 2: Have deep philosophical discussion on
            the ethics of your actions</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Step 3: Use any video editing tool to trim out
            the parts of the file you don't want.</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Step 4: (optionally) burn to DVD as playable
            movie ... (preserving the menu content isn't possible at
            this point. That ship sailed when you ripped it).</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Step 4a: Play digitally with Plex.</div>
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          <div dir="auto">Step 5: Explain to your wife (or significant
            other) that it's a hobby, and not stupid, and if you
            upgraded the computer (server) Plex would play her Hallmark
            movies and RealHousewives episodes better ... (it won't, but
            she doesn't need to know that).</div>
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            <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">Thanks,<br>
              Alexander<br>
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              Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 10:50
          Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <<a
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            <div>I always laugh with new format introductions by the
              media cartels to get people to buy the same thing all over
              again, now these streaming services, and still somehow get
              fed ads for your patronage.  Or I can just download a
              clean, perfect version of that already in about 2 minutes
              of effort from piratebay.  Unless you really feel some
              guilt or enjoy the technical practice of ripping video,
              just download it using a vpn to some random place and save
              the effort someone else already did.<br>
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            <div>I haven't paid for media or seen commercials in 25
              years, and rather spend for new hard drives and bandwidth
              over a new movie I'm going to download on said hard drive,
              watch exactly once (if that), delete, and forget. 
              Apparently people like me haven't ruined the business that
              the Disney's and the other mega media cartels go out of
              business yet and still maintain record profits.  Go
              figure.</div>
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            <div>-mb<br>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at
              8:00 AM George Toft via PLUG-discuss <<a
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              wrote:<br>
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              rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What I do in the
              privacy of my own home is none of the Government's <br>
              business.  It's in the Constitution.  Not that the
              Government cares much <br>
              about that, either.<br>
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              Regards,<br>
              <br>
              George Toft<br>
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              On 11/3/2022 9:16 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
              wrote:<br>
              > Altering a dvd for any reason is against federal law.
              It displays that on the beginning of the dvd or Blu-ray.<br>
              ><br>
              > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022, at 20:06, Jim via PLUG-discuss
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              >> I bought some DVDs recently that have those
              annoying trailers before<br>
              >> the main menu that I can't skip or fast forward
              to.   Is there some<br>
              >> llnux software that would let me remove those
              trailers from a copy  I<br>
              >> make of one of the DVDs? thanks<br>
              >><br>
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