More Unskippable Piracy Warnings for DVDs
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Great, an other reason to never buy dvd's again. If their plan is to kill the medium to stop piracy of it, then it looks like they're on the right track 
I don't buy DVDs anyway... So +1 for me XP
For some reason films don't really give much enjoyment even when they're really good. Weird.
Except I buy anime DVDs off Amazon but hey those don't count. Code Geass came out in 2006 so it belongs to the fun times of olde where there were no anti-piracy shenanigans in every single cinema and DVD ever XD
Now, if they were to put Lelouch into an anti-piracy advert...
"Lelouch Vi Britannia commands you... All of you, never download films illegally again!
For some reason films don't really give much enjoyment even when they're really good. Weird.
Except I buy anime DVDs off Amazon but hey those don't count. Code Geass came out in 2006 so it belongs to the fun times of olde where there were no anti-piracy shenanigans in every single cinema and DVD ever XD
Now, if they were to put Lelouch into an anti-piracy advert...
"Lelouch Vi Britannia commands you... All of you, never download films illegally again!
It's interesting to see they realise they're only hurting the legitimate consumers, and that they're actively aiming at that. While I agree that that's a stupid idea, I don't see how society has become so obsessed with instant gratification that people can't wait a minute or two before watching their 2 hour movie. Yeah it's annoying and stupid, but it's not an excuse for piracy, just go pop some popcorn while you wait. Think about it, it could be worse, maybe we should be happy we don't have to put in a code before watching a movie or that it won't lock the DVD to a specific DVD player. I do like the IPR one, why can't they just replace all the other ones with only that? I'm sure no-one would complain about that.
No, it's your poor distribution methods and pricing model that causes piracy, not a lack of information about what a crime is.
My favorite example of anti-piracy having gone overboard is from a couple years ago back at university:
my proffesor came into class grumbling. Said his damn Iphone was just junk.
Apparently he'd bought some music via Itunes and downloaded it - but that music had been copy-protected to the point that he couldn't move it off his computer on to his Iphone!
I lol'd and patted my mp3 player.
As the jimquisition pointed out recently: media providers need to stop charging retail value for digitaly distributed content, and they need to stop treating everyone like would-be criminals
Gaben said it well in an article I read a while ago: Its all in the distribution. The big pic posted by lapan demonstrates perfectly how DVDs and blurays with 'locked' content and whatnot have reached rediculous levels... I don't buy a DVD to have my dvd-player be held hostage and me forced to watch ads and trailers that'll quickly become very obsolote and out of date
I'll pay for a movie. just the movie. and nothing but the movie.
my proffesor came into class grumbling. Said his damn Iphone was just junk.
Apparently he'd bought some music via Itunes and downloaded it - but that music had been copy-protected to the point that he couldn't move it off his computer on to his Iphone!
I lol'd and patted my mp3 player.
As the jimquisition pointed out recently: media providers need to stop charging retail value for digitaly distributed content, and they need to stop treating everyone like would-be criminals
Gaben said it well in an article I read a while ago: Its all in the distribution. The big pic posted by lapan demonstrates perfectly how DVDs and blurays with 'locked' content and whatnot have reached rediculous levels... I don't buy a DVD to have my dvd-player be held hostage and me forced to watch ads and trailers that'll quickly become very obsolote and out of date
I'll pay for a movie. just the movie. and nothing but the movie.
Preventing me from accessing the content on the DVDs I bought without sitting through a dozen piracy warnings is not a victimless crime, either.
Piracy is always a service issue, they should either give up completely or make a better product.
To be reiterative, it's absurd. This is just more busy work to look like they're trying and to hide the fact that they don't have a clue how to curb the problem.
On the other hand. I don't use a DVD player. I use my laptop, and then plug it to the tv. This gives me the additional benefit of using AnyDVD and legally (I bought the program) skipping straight to the menu and also overcoming limited region switching of the dvd drive that on mobile devices and the age of global releases and shipping is completely backwards.
On the other hand. I don't use a DVD player. I use my laptop, and then plug it to the tv. This gives me the additional benefit of using AnyDVD and legally (I bought the program) skipping straight to the menu and also overcoming limited region switching of the dvd drive that on mobile devices and the age of global releases and shipping is completely backwards.
That's an odd way of looking at it, I reckon. I'm sure we are a little spoiled, but this is a legitimate complaint.GeorgW said:
An entertainment product that has put you in a shitty mood before it's actually started can be described as defective by design. It's not even a case of 2 minutes here and there, it's easily 8 minutes on a lot of discs, and I've heard closer to 15 minutes on certain discs. That's annoying for a single adult viewer. Just think of the poor bastard who is putting on Finding Nemo for his 2 year old and having to deal with the ensuing tantrum when 8 minutes later the film still hasn't started.
They've taken something good, and ruined it. £15, please.
I like how retarded the governments are. The warning only appears on a legit non downloaded illegally copy of the movie. You have therefore paid money to the studio aka not pirated it in the first place making the warning about piracy superfluous.
*golfclap*
*golfclap*
"Continue pirating movies, and we'll make the legitimate product worse!"
*blink* *blink*
Okayyyyy...
Because apparently there aren't enough people using the "the product isn't worth paying for anyway" excuse at present? (For the record, I recognize it's a feeble excuse. But criminy, gasoline on the fire, guys...)
I suspect that as long as Netflix offers instant streaming without this kind of crap, it's going to be a point in their favor. Even more so as many video stores start to offer "rental copies" with extra ads and omitted extras.
Most of the movies I own on DVD I've already seen in the theater. Returning to them is returning to a fond memory- one I paid for the right to revisit. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops until the media company is convinced of my loyalty in any for-pay medium.
*blink* *blink*
Okayyyyy...
Because apparently there aren't enough people using the "the product isn't worth paying for anyway" excuse at present? (For the record, I recognize it's a feeble excuse. But criminy, gasoline on the fire, guys...)
I suspect that as long as Netflix offers instant streaming without this kind of crap, it's going to be a point in their favor. Even more so as many video stores start to offer "rental copies" with extra ads and omitted extras.
Most of the movies I own on DVD I've already seen in the theater. Returning to them is returning to a fond memory- one I paid for the right to revisit. I shouldn't have to jump through hoops until the media company is convinced of my loyalty in any for-pay medium.
what's wrong with downloading a bear or two sometimes D:?Andy Shandy said:As with every topic that comes up about these unskippable things, I feel obliged to post this image.
Anyway, do they not realise that people are annoyed by these and all these anti-piracy ads they have to wade through are more likely to make them pirate?
also trying to brainwash the general public never works as
then again, even without those notices it's pretty unlikely that I would pirate, considering how the things I'm not willing to spend money on are also probably not worth my (somewhat valuable) time : /
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