Pirates vs Paying Customers
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
February, 2010
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February 22nd, 2010 at 10:15 am
Hi, Jon;
I know on my dvd player, I can simply press the menu key at the top and it skips all that crap. What burns me is even tho we buy the dvd or Blah Ray, we’re told that we don’t own it we have only bought a license to watch it. Now this is one point of law I’d love to see them try to defend in court cause they sure as hell couldn’t. This is the same old argument they cry each time you buy a CD or DVD or Blah Ray along with the FBI warning of commercial or private copying. Again I’d love to see the Kartels try to take someone to court for copying their own movie which they bought with their hard earned money. This warning is nothing more than a wish list for the Kartels by the Kartels and any law enforcement division they can either buy or bribe.
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Very excellent point Logan, if as they claim we had paid for a hunk of plastic but also a “virtual licence” to listen to or watch media this should then give us the legal right to have replacement media available to us at a minimal cost should such disks become scratched or damaged, in theory we should be able to send them the damaged media and expect a replacement, I,m sure anyone trying that will find out the lie of the “licence” claim.
Please correct me if I,m wrong any Cartel types reading this as I have a whole heap of old disks waiting for an address to send to : )
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
The bottom line is correct: vote with your wallet.
I don’t possess any DVD disc that was paid for and won’t get a blue ray (sic) drive either, because (1) everything will be pirated anyway, and the most important (2) no independent producer can afford to pay the copy protection mafia $1,585 per title and then $0.05/disc to get a forced copy protection that won’t work and will only hurt legitimate consumers.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Sure you pay for a license and you can move it freely to another media. But of course you’ll have to circumvent the DRM and that’s illegal, so sorry, you only have a license on that precise peice of plastic only. And anywhere it’s not already the law thay will get ani circumvention carved into law no matter how much it costs them. Cause they’ll make more making yopu pay for the plastic, or for a dgital download AND them making you pay a per viewing fee.
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:30 pm
If I am a pirate, this is what I get:
(MOVIE NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD)
But if I am a paying customer, this is what I get:
(EMPTY SPACE ON THE SHELF)
February 24th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
You ain’t kiddin’ bub! They do that in the theaters, too! By the time they get to the movie itself, a HALF-HOUR will have passed! Soon enough, a 2-hour visit to the theater will become 3 or even 3½ hours because of unnecessary shit like this!