Step 2 = LoL
Step 5: there are tools that will allow you to make your own.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 7:48 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Step 1: Rip DVD (MakeMKV, or others)
>
> Step 2: Have deep philosophical discussion on the ethics of your actions
>
> Step 3: Use any video editing tool to trim out the parts of the file you
> don't want.
>
> 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).
>
> Step 4a: Play digitally with Plex.
>
> 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).
>
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+
>
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 10:50 Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 8:00 AM George Toft via PLUG-discuss <
>> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>> What I do in the privacy of my own home is none of the Government's
>>> business.  It's in the Constitution.  Not that the Government cares much
>>> about that, either.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> George Toft
>>>
>>> On 11/3/2022 9:16 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> > Altering a dvd for any reason is against federal law. It displays that
>>> on the beginning of the dvd or Blu-ray.
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Nov 3, 2022, at 20:06, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> >> I bought some DVDs recently that have those annoying trailers before
>>> >> the main menu that I can't skip or fast forward to.   Is there some
>>> >> llnux software that would let me remove those trailers from a copy  I
>>> >> make of one of the DVDs? thanks
>>> >>
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