Posted by WCZ on 04/04/06 11:36

<stokefolk@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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)

Last time I had one of these and didn't want to make a cup of tea, I pressed
stop, then menu and it went straight to the DVD menu with to trailer or be a
good boy crap.

>
> 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.
>

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