Malfeasant

Surprised you're not already banned just for the c-word. I mean, if someone crashes their car through a storefront, I could speculate without evidence that the driver was excessively old, young, drunk, or just plain stupid and it's left up to the reader to take my comment with a grain of salt, but if I so much as entertain the possibility of this shooting being anything besides what is being reported by official channels, I must be silenced.

That's not true, otherwise Phoenix would be unlivable. It's close, but not quite there yet.

Same as Russian roulette...

All of those things are possible, but statistically, being distracted is far more likely than any of them... More likely than most of them combined, even.

You just want to legalize murder!

/poeslaw

DVD is better than Blu-ray in that regard - I've ripped DVDs that look like they fell off a truck and got run over multiple times and had no problem, meanwhile about 1 out of 5 Blu-rays I got from Netflix would have problems despite looking pristine. It has to do with the data density, Blu-ray packs so much more in the same amount of space, one microscopic scratch wipes out so much data...

Of course some DVDs suffer from bad materials. I was re-ripping my collection recently, and I have a few that have sat in a closet untouched for years, not a scratch on them, but the drive won't even recognize there's a disc. Probably oxidation of the reflective layer.

Way back when I used to copy movies to .avi files, my computer was in one room, my TV in another, I had a video card with TV out and a long set of cables, I'd preserve the copyright warning because it gave me time to start the movie then walk to the living room to watch it...

VHS was kind of 2.5 thanks to macrovision...

Yo ho!

That's just single layer - dual layer is something like 8.4 if memory serves (which it often doesn't...)

Wow, I don't even remember that. I've been playing DVDs on a computer basically forever, which rarely obeyed such restrictions...