More Unskippable Piracy Warnings for DVDs

Fayathon

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As it sits I'm not affected by these warnings anyways, I rip all of my movies to my HDD and watch them on my computer, keeping my discs safe and sound. The software I use only pulls the movie itself off the disk, so I scoff at unskippable shit on movies.
 

Erana

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Reminding me of who is getting my money does not help.

I mean, who hasn't been screwed over by the greed of people vastly more wealthy than them at some point? I want to ignore it and watch my movie.
 

RJ Dalton

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Forgive me if I personally feel that the people who are victims in this crime are harmful leeches on society who have no right to exist.
 

PingoBlack

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Erana said:
Reminding me of who is getting my money does not help.

I mean, who hasn't been screwed over by the greed of people vastly more wealthy than them at some point? I want to ignore it and watch my movie.
Seems RIAA and MPAA don't quite get why they earned so much money from making movies about Robin Hood huh? :)

"Let's make an epic tragedy about a Sheriff that gets destroyed by some pesky pirate from the forest!"
 

esperandote

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So they are trying to reduce piracy by making legit movies suck even more?

Once again pirate service>Original service
 

zidine100

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oh look... a publicity stunt. It feels election time.

I hate to pretty much repost one of my previous posts, but thats all this really is.

I mean how in the flaming pits of Disney land is adding more warnings, telling legitimate customers don't do anything illegal now, you know like you haven't done, but this is just a 'friendly' reminder criminal scum, going to stop piracy.
 

Kyogissun

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"drive the pirates into the ocean from whence they came."

I lost it all over the ground.
 

1337mokro

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MelasZepheos said:
It's great that you don't have to be reminded not to shoplift or speed, but I'm willing to wager that you wouldn't shop at a store that made you listen to a 30 second lecture on the illegality of shoplifting from the cashier while you're checking out, or buy a car that would make you listen to a 30 second recording about the illegality of speeding before it let you put it into gear and drive off.
You forgot to say every time you start up you're car. This isn't a one time warning. Every time you watch the tape you as the legal customer will be told how wrong it is to steal something that doesn't belong to you.

Lol I noticed I said tape instead of DVD. You see how outdated and useless this practice is people? It's so old and has had so little effect I instantly thought of the fucking 80's when they mentioned this. You know what would combat piracy?

Offering on demand DVD's for a low price. I know they have Netflix and such already, but not everywhere in the world yet. A world wide, no DRM or copyright measures service that beams whatever you want to watch, at any time directly into your home or portable media device would basically make piracy obsolete.

Why? Because with piracy it's still a huge risk, with keyloggers, having to find the right sites, downloading the damned things. If a legitimate service would pop up that would allow you to do basically the same for a small fee per movie or episode that operated worldwide, but also offered security from viruses and life streaming, I think pirates would have allot less grip on the web.
 

Ashcrexl

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Piracy is not a victimless crime. Companies are making only billions of dollars per year instead of trillions.

Also, why the hell are they putting anti-piracy warnings in legally bought DVD's?
 

Gamegodtre

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lapan said:


This thread made me think of this picture. It's like DRM, all it does is annoy and scare away their legit customers.
I couldnt put it in any other words thank you sir on another note will this be on the digital download version to? quite frankly i only get blurays / dvds for the extras nowadays
 

BehattedWanderer

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Who comes up with this crap? These are piracy incentives, people. You want to make it more convenient to purchase a movie, not less. Christ, this is dumb.
 
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Casual Shinji said:
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?
I don't download anything. I stream my bears.
Streaming is downloading from a tech stand point of view. You are downloading the x amount of bandwidth to watch the show on your computer or other streaming player which is why netfilx has settings now for those who have caps. In short it doesn't matter if you are streaming copyrighted material it is still illegal the question is do you care?

On the subject at hand.. well I am thankful for dvd ripping software to bypass this.
 

Griffolion

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Why thank you, huge corporation, for telling me how piracy is wrong. Me, a paying, legal customer of yours. Yeah, I'm the one you need to be targeting this at...
 

Kenjitsuka

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It's so useless to add annoyances to legitimate copies, which makes pirated ones more covetable.
The Dutch versions are particularily screechy, loud, flashy pieces of shit.

Paying top dollar for Blurays and then this... always pisses me off to no end.
 

Lost In The Void

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poiumty said:
Lost In The Void said:
Oh Good, this gives me more time to grab a beer and some popcorn before I start my movie. Thanks US Government, you never cease to help.
Or you could just do that while it's downloading. Saves some hassle.

I'M JOKING MODS. PUT DOWN THOSE BANHAMMERS. PUT THEM DOWN.

I disagree on piracy being either a crime or digital theft. But I'm sure Homeland Ignorance doesn't give three shits about that.
The thing is, those FBI warnings don't even apply to me, being Canadian so all it does is literally waste my time.
 

Ticonderoga117

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Yup, this'll go over well. Luckily I just don't watch movies outside the theater all that much now these days. And no, it's not because I pirate, I just read or play video games to fill that time generally.

Found this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZadCj8O1-0&feature=my_favorites&list=FLdNOvuVxjgK297h9CMM0L4w] youtube vid on this forum though and I figure it has something legitimate to say about pirating in general.