r/dankmemes • u/MrSolarSun • Jun 07 '25

A GOOD MEME (rage comic, advice animals, mlg) How to own your media without buying physical media

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u/ToastyBB Jun 07 '25

How to own your media without buying physical media Version 2.0: take a camera and point it at the screen and hit record. Now you can enjoy feature films and television whenever you wish.

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u/imetators Jun 07 '25

Mmmm. TS. A blast from the past.

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u/Sadboy_looking4memes Jun 07 '25

I watched 300 on a bootleg, and remember seeing someone get up in the middle of the recording.

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u/duvie773 Jun 07 '25

If your bootleg wasn’t filmed at a slight angle with at least two people walking across the screen at some point in the movie, you got ripped off

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u/angeryrainfrog Jun 07 '25

Extra points if you obtained them from a kind, chatty Chinese man in a pub beer garden, who would go round to all the tables with his blue plastic bag from the corner shop. Probably about 2005 in the UK. Ahhh memories

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u/wiserone29 Jun 08 '25

He wasn’t just in the UK, that chatty Asian man made it to Brooklyn, NY as well.

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u/angeryrainfrog Jun 08 '25

Hats off to him working on holiday, the grind never ends

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u/The-Tru-Succ Jun 07 '25

I did the same for the Black Rock Shooter OVA saw someone get up and move. Didn't even know what was being said since it was only in Japanese at the time lol

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u/Oobutwo Jun 07 '25

Pretty sure we watched the same bootleg version of 300.

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u/rapafon Jun 07 '25

My dad got a bootleg of Lilo and Stitch for me as a kid and this MF with a 10 gallon cowboy hat gets up to use the bathroom 😅

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u/latexfistmassacre Jun 08 '25

Pretty sure I saw that same recording lol

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u/xenophonthethird Jun 08 '25

I first watched Avatar by bootleg on my laptop with some dudes at work. Initially had difficulty understanding why everyone was in love with the movie because I wasn't dazzled by the visuals lol

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u/SomeDankyBoof Jun 08 '25

Bro we probably saw the same recording! The good old days, where just getting your hands on the DVD, after bootlegging it, made it feel brand new

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u/meIRLorMeOnReddit Jun 07 '25

did they yell "this is sparta"?

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u/helicophell Doing the no bitches challange ahaha Jun 07 '25

You can hook the player device to a different device and record that way

Because they cannot detect devices outside of your computer

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u/halpfulhinderance Jun 07 '25

Ahh would a VM work, in that case?

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u/MrSolarSun Jun 07 '25

Funnily enough, that's what Quinton Reviews did in his CN Real video when tried to screen record Episodes of Dude What Would Happen and Destroy Build Destroy, but it wouldn't work and he was forced to do what you just described.

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u/Miwa1911 Jun 07 '25

You can turn off hardware acceleration / graphics acceleration in your browsers settings, which will make you able to record the screen. :) I used to do this on Netflix.

You can find the setting in “system” on Brave browser. Probably something similar in others

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u/SwivelChairRacer Jun 07 '25

This does work, but it cuts the resolution to 480p

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u/TheZedrem big pp gang Jun 07 '25

Nah man, just install a VM and record the Window

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u/Classic-Champion-966 Jun 07 '25

And get some friends to get up in front of the camera to get more popcorn and cough and adjust their big hair. And once in a while you pass around with a light stick looking through rows, so the camera needs to go dark for a few seconds. Then back up, but no longer aligned properly. And the sound of fabric rubbing over the microphone.

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u/AFallingWall Jun 07 '25

How to own your media without buying physical media Version 3.0: Create a virtual machine using something like VirtualBox. Open streaming platform of choice. Use screen recorder or main machine. Full screen virtual machine. EzPz.

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u/Kevin_Xland Hentai Connoisseur Jun 07 '25

I'd imagine an HDMI capture card would work

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u/toshineon2 Jun 07 '25

I used a VCR to record from Netflix once. Do not recommend, but they can’t block it at least.

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u/RoombaSimulator Jun 08 '25

me in 2008 trying to make halo 3 machinima

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u/patfetes Jun 07 '25

Like a gramdma on Facebook

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u/ProfessorCagan Jun 08 '25

Thats why you buy an HDMI splitter that can strip out HDCP.

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u/seventeenward Jun 08 '25

Or just use screen capture device?