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Posted by Simon Dean on 04/02/06 23:14
stokefolk@gmail.com wrote:
> Every DVD I've bought in the last few months has had a couple of
> minutes worth of unskippable anti-piracy crap at the beginning, telling
> me that if I was to buy pirate DVD's, I'd be paying the wages of
> someone who would otherwise be a terrorist, drug dealer or child pimp
> (or some such message anyway)
>
> Without getting into the merits of their arguments, can I just send a
> short message to the industry:
>
> YOU'RE TARGETING THE WRONG PEOPLE!
>
> I've been out and paid for the DVD. You can tell this by the way I have
> to sit through this crap. If I'd paid a quarter of the price for a
> copy, the film would be halfway through by the time the genuine version
> gets to the menu.
>
> OK, rant over. As you were.
>
Oh yeah, I know what you mean. I put the new Harry Potter DVD in. I
think I was asked what language....only it wasn't so subtle, a list of
foreign and arabic words that I couldn't make out. hardly sore "English"
hiding away top screen (or was it actually at the end of four pages).
Then it plays the FACT notice. I have to select a language for the FACT
notice! AAAARGH
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