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The matrix came out in 1999. At that time the quality of that movie blew my mind. I remember around then you could play movies on pc with powerdvd or similar. It was a bit choppy at times but it worked.
Decss came out the same year which enabled dvd ripping. It was slow as hell back then to rip and encode a dvd. You had to use multiple tools to split the streams (audio/video) encode the audio and video separately and put them back together again. It sucked.
Divx also came out in about 1998-1999 which was a hacked up mpeg 4 codec that enabled higher quality encodes at smaller sizes.
Piracy in the 90s was more focused on audio and sneaker netting copies of stuff with your friends. The tech was just emerging to rip movies.
Dvds in the 90s were rare anyway because the players were expensive. VHS copying was much easier, as you just need two VCRs