Posted by Skipai Otter on 04/03/06 14:25

"Adrian A" <anca@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> It makes me tempted to just buy pirate copies, without all that crap.

It's getting to the point of buying DVD, slapping it into a PC, use dvd
decrypt, copy it and then burn to a blank disc and play that instead with
all that programming stuff removed to stop fast forwarding past adverts,
FACT, etc, etc and just get to the movie.

*sigh*

I suppose the popularity of DVD is to blame for this, gone are the days back
in '98 when you didn't even have adverts, the disc's just went into the menu
and that was it.

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Skipai

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