You have no innate right to have a 1:1 copy of a bluray disk on your harddrive.
I know that very clearly. The DMCA has no exception for that sort of fair use. My point is that is BS, it goes against the fair use provisions set in the Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. Not that you seem to care.
And lot of people rip rentals dude.
Not to the point where it is a big priority for pirates or those who try to stop pirates. And I don't have to speculate on that, the Sony leak allowed everyone to see the playbook against piracy going forward:
You know what you are not seeing as a priority (low, medium, or high)? Ripping disks. The reason is because that is a small small percentage of piracy, and of that percentage a small small amount won't get move to other software for ripping disks.
You guys are gonna keep on stealing and nothing will stop you because you are ahead of the curve.
That isn't true, there is a lot that can slow down piracy. Stopping people from ripping disks isn't one of them.
Its pretty easy to buy movies on amazon and itunes. I do it all the time. $20 and you have a streaming movie forever. How is that not convenient?
Because that isn't as good of a product that the Blu Ray is. On either Amazon or iTunes the audio quality is worse, the picture quality is worse, and the selection compared to what has been put on physical disks isn't nearly as complete due to media deals. So you have to buy some in iTunes, some in Amazon, some in Vudu, just to be able to watch all the content you want to watch. And that isn't even considering the fact that thanks to DRM you need a "approved" device to play back that movie that you "bought."
A Blu Ray disk that I buy and that I rip I can then stream to ANY device in my house, ANY tv in my house, heck even any of my mobile devices when I am on the road. No service to date offers the level of convenience for purchased media. In comparison I can't stream any of "my" iTunes movies on my Android phone.
You might mock me for having expectations of better, but it can be done. As mentioned Steam did that to games, and now it is very convenient to play Steam games on almost any device or TV in your house. Eventually the media companies will get over themselves and stop demanding all kinds of crazy restrictions in their contracts with technology companies like Google and Apple, and at that point maybe we will have a service with the convenience of a roll-your-own setup.
Until then I will still attempt to rip my disks and consume them how I want to consume them.