Can BD rips be legally downloaded?

[XMonarchY]

I use madVR with 3DLUT for my HTPC, which is also my gaming PC (specs in my sig). I wish there was an online download service that would allow me to playback LEGALLY purchased films in MPC-HC, using madVR and 3DLUT'. Is there such a thing out there or not? It would make little sense for such a service to provide full BD downloads because are huge, but some kind of rips or just pure streaming, like with Netflix, BUT via MPC-HC or else its pointless because my TV is one of those that does not have very accurate colorspace, no matter how good you are at calibration, which forces me to use 3DLUT to get that nice accuracy.

[hello_hello]

Don't many movies come in various flavours now, including a digital copy?

You're probably asking a bit much for MPC-HC playback though, given I'd imagine they're all smothered in DRM. Unless there's a way to remove it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_copy
https://www.universalhidef.com/digitalcopy/whatisdigitalcopy/

Or there's the cloud based Ultraviolet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraViolet_%28system%29

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Copy-DVD/b?node=721726011

[nevcairiel]

Just buy the Blu-ray and watch that through MPC-HC? That works just fine, assuming you have something like AnyDVD HD to decrypt the Blu-ray on-the-fly, or you rip it first using MakeMKV.

All streaming services use strict DRM, which usually only works in very closed playback systems, and never in madVR.

[Sparktank]

There's also a lot of country restrictions for certain movie titles or movie studios/distributors, due to international copyright laws.

It would be better to buy the bluray and use any of the methods nevcairiel mentioned.

[Ghitulescu]

Part of the copyright protections deal was that the issuer (studios) will provide at least one method to let the user have his legally purchased movie (well, one has purchased only the right to watch the movie) on an alternate device.

Not all studios agreed to this, and there is unfortunately nothing to do against, but some provided, as said before, "digital copies".

The trick is that the law doesn't consider the quality of the movie as a difference, so mostly these copies are low quality and/or low definition ones. But for the user of downloaded DivX they should make no problem, right? :) :) :)

For the same reason, up/down-loading a movie is regarded to be the same, be it as FULL BD, DivX or even 16 pixels wide per 9 pixels height. The offence is the same.

Conclusions
- downloading per se is not punishable in many countries.
- watching a dl movie may be punishable (if the offender is caught :) )
- redistributing the content is punishable on par with children rapists :)
- making your own copies from legally purchased media is highly dependent on country's own exceptions.

The bad point is that protected media remain protected and illegal (excepting the exceptions) even after the copyright has lapsed (id est even your great-grandsons are not allowed to do it).