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Remember the days before streaming services were a thing? Yep, basically that: as in people would burrow a rented copy from a friend who paid money to obtain a official copy on DVD from blockbuster then ripping the contents into those blank DVDs (the white ones) meaning they've pirated a copy for home use but it's still a "torrent". I remember watching a ripped copy of Finding Nemo (or other kids movies from that era) when I was younger.

The same with "lending" a purchased copy from a store a friend has proceeding to rip the DVD content onto a blank DVD having a copy. Then there are CAM's (pirates using a video camera to record the film upon being shown in theaters) usually they do this around the debut (new releases in cinema) by sneaking a camcorder but the footage is shit (I remember back in 2010, I've seen Alice in Wonderland via CAM and it sucked due to bad resolution and audio).

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

The new Naked Gun was really bad and not funny at all. It was torture to watch.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 month ago

Not the worst one, but the worst one I watched entirely. Wanted to watch Freddy vs Jason with a friend. I got a DVD screener intended for press that switched to black and white every few minutes.

At first we thought it was intentional because the whole movie plays around with weirdly tinted scenes. So why not black and white as well?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

This is how videos like the church of the subgenuis circulated, replaced pirated VHS copies swapped for some surreal culture jamming dadism stuff.

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Pre release of soul plane. Half the effects weren't in the movie yet. Hilariously bad.

An nth generation vhs fansub of an episode of Dragon Ball. That someone had recorded using a late 90's video capture card and uploaded in realmedia format.

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