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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1626786"><p>Illegally copying movies from rented dvds is a crime. Every DVD I've ever rented had that FBI warning at the beginning, saying just that. In addition to the FBI, the US Navy frowns on bringing stolen property aboard ship. And illegal copies of movies are stolen property.</p><p></p><p>The size difference between a USB memory stick and an external drive enclosure is, on a submarine, a huge difference. (I know because I've been on a submarine and I know exactly how tight it really is.) Also, the idea of "transmittal" of flash drives to the son won't work because submariners do NOT get mail on anything like a regular basis. They go out, go under, and stay there, for the most part, until they get back to home port or a sub tender somewhere a few months later. Mail can take months to catch up, particularly if world circumstances change the ship's routing. What navydad wants to do is to provide his son as many legal movies as he can that can fit in the very, very tight spaces aboard submarines. An external drive just won't cut it. Using mail won't cut it. What navydad needs to think about is how to get the movies he buys legally onto something his son can fit in the few cubic inches of free space he has on board.</p><p></p><p>I don't buy movies online for download, so I don't know the prices, but one thing to think about is that if his son's PC has a DVD player inside it, maybe the best way is to buy the movie on DVD, take it out of the case and put it in a "paper" sleeve (Those come in boxes of 100's for a very cheap price) and give his son a stack of DVDs in those sleeves. Nice, compact stack for storage, slips into tiny crevices in his locker, tradable if other sailors have different movies in their inventory. Without the crystal cases, they don't take much space. Of course, if the HP PC doesn't have an optical drive, that won't work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1626786"] Illegally copying movies from rented dvds is a crime. Every DVD I've ever rented had that FBI warning at the beginning, saying just that. In addition to the FBI, the US Navy frowns on bringing stolen property aboard ship. And illegal copies of movies are stolen property. The size difference between a USB memory stick and an external drive enclosure is, on a submarine, a huge difference. (I know because I've been on a submarine and I know exactly how tight it really is.) Also, the idea of "transmittal" of flash drives to the son won't work because submariners do NOT get mail on anything like a regular basis. They go out, go under, and stay there, for the most part, until they get back to home port or a sub tender somewhere a few months later. Mail can take months to catch up, particularly if world circumstances change the ship's routing. What navydad wants to do is to provide his son as many legal movies as he can that can fit in the very, very tight spaces aboard submarines. An external drive just won't cut it. Using mail won't cut it. What navydad needs to think about is how to get the movies he buys legally onto something his son can fit in the few cubic inches of free space he has on board. I don't buy movies online for download, so I don't know the prices, but one thing to think about is that if his son's PC has a DVD player inside it, maybe the best way is to buy the movie on DVD, take it out of the case and put it in a "paper" sleeve (Those come in boxes of 100's for a very cheap price) and give his son a stack of DVDs in those sleeves. Nice, compact stack for storage, slips into tiny crevices in his locker, tradable if other sailors have different movies in their inventory. Without the crystal cases, they don't take much space. Of course, if the HP PC doesn't have an optical drive, that won't work. [/QUOTE]
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