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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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's funny how many talk about cam versions burned to disk because that's my answer too. I found "Toy Story 3" in some bootleg ripped DVD's long LONG before it was ever made.

I bought it just because I was curious what was on the disk because it couldn't possibly be what the cover said.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Aaaand... what was it?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 5 points 5 days ago

I think it turned out to be a buzz lightyear video. But the cover definitely said Toy Story 3.