Avder
join:2002-05-08
Moorhead, MN Reviews:
 ·Midcontinent Com..
| Its becoming entirely too common for the studios to forcibly employ the user-prohibited-actions "feature" of the DVD spec in order to force you to sit through advertisements each and every time you watch the film. They already employ it to force you to sit through the FBI warnings (In three separate languages, no less), and numerous disclaimers about how the directors commentary doesnt reflect on the studios, yadda, yadda, yadda. Its bad enough that most discs nowadays start by playing advertisements for upcoming films. But if a disc that I bought and paid good money for employs prohibited actions to force viewing of the ads, I violate the circumvention clause of the DMCA in order to rip and re-burn in an ad-free format.
When I hit Menu, and then Play, I want the movie to start playing. Not start playing 5 minutes later.
The Pirates can attempt to justify their actions as much as they want, but one thing going for the Pirated film experience is you simply get to the damned movie a lot faster. If Paying Customers got the same treatment, it would help eliminate that aspect of piracy. And this applies to all forms of copyright: Music, Movies, and Software (especially games). |
