As with most people I’ve amassed a fairly sizable collection of cd’s and dvd’s over the years, not nearly as impressive as some of my friends who’ve spent great oodles more then I have to amass 600 cd or 300 dvd’s but enough to take up a fairly sizable chunk of space. With my mythtv box more or less up and running ( I still have not hooked up to output to the tv and I get a plain black screen when I try it in a remote window ^.^), I’ve started the long fun process of ripping the main feature to hard drives. Imagine that I just want to watch the movie and don’t really care about any of the extras. Imagine that I just want to have the movie without all the added crap I don’t generally watch anyways. Yes, probably like most people…we don’t actually care about the added fluff that you include to keep the prices high. I’m sure if you were to actually talk to most dvd owners, we just want a cheap movie.

For now however, I shall burn my movies without the css protection, yes I also dislike your protection/extortion schemes as well. Especially considering they are designed for one platform in mind and attempts to leave everyone else out in the rain. Oh and for further information, I have no intention of buying a movie or song for services like itunes. For one I like physical ownership of something, and even if its said that I can redownload a media if the hard drive should crash…I’m still left with limited options, where owning a physical piece of media, allows me to exercise my fair use ability for my own devices. Course by the definition that is wanted…I’m a pirate of wanting to watch any movie I want without having to insert a dvd…wonderful isn’t it?

Well, backing away from ranting incoherently like I always do. The seven movies I’ve ripped ( Pump up the Volume, American Pie, Se7en, Reservoir Dogs, The Italian Job (new one), Love Actually, and Topgun) are taking up about 36 gigs of space. With 917G of space to play with. I think I can finish up all the movies I own and have quite a few hours of tv recording capability left over. Amazing how much space digitizing aspects of your life can take. In some ways, it makes you wonder how much space your life would actually take if it was all done digitally and stored. While [ remembered != 0]; do echo “keeping your life around because someone still remembers you”; done; echo “No one remembers you so you’ve poofed out of existence”.

In some ways it’d be interesting if life was just a program in a computer simulation, and in fact we were all stored as digital files. How big would your’s be?

Note to self: Should make a list of dvd’s to order in a list of priority and just work my way down it slowly….music well, its getting harder to find stuff that peeks my interest..and that’s mostly gone to germany instead of the states for something decent.