LOLOL.  Thanks for the laugh.  I needed it.

On 11/7/22 05:48, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss 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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