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It's going to be way easier just to torrent the files. Also if netflix notices your account is suddenly going through ten times the data they may deactivate it.
This level of effort is probably geared more towards those who create the torrents, not those who consume them.
Hi. No it isn't. Things are usually ripped by recording the screen.
I removed my downvote after realizing you're actually right, in a sense. In scene terms, a "webrip" can be a screen recording, whereas a "web-dl" by definition isn't. By these definitions,
could likely be true, even moreso if you count "recording hdmi stream after breaking hdcp" as a screen recording.
Most rips are webrips. At least the first ones. Then once the DVDs/BluRays come out they're usually remuxes of those. Very few organizations know how to breake the web DRM thing, and it takes a while.
Rips are rips, with a degradation in quality compared to the captured source. WEB-DLs are the source itself (of a chosen resolution), with no degradation.