Depends on the RIP… some rips look 100% great, some other people use codecs that compress the video to much when they convert them and looks like shit.
Regardless for me its just the fact that I love the reliability of Newsgroups. Many private torrent sites are very reliable, but sometimes its just nice to download a movie and be done. Have to keep a good seeding ration as most private sites require sucks dick sometimes when I want to use my comp and play a game and im lagging like a bitch because im upoading to people.