The MPAA and DVD preview BS.... (449 hits)
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Submitted by DarthFaded (View user info) at 2008-01-05 16:24:26 EST
OK just to give a brief overview for those of you that may or may not have seen, the MPAA has now levied it's influence to include at the beginning of every DVD that is produced by major DVD publishers, a nifty little 50 second video "PSA" (note the parenthesis).
Here you are for reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU
Am I the only one that thinks this tactic is total Bullshit?
Just to say it, I believe there is a moral gray area that can be argued as to whether or not intellectual property can be classified and lumped together with physical property with regards to stealing (Thanks again Metallica, you mother fuckers), but getting back to what I was saying...
This video and the message it conveys is bullshit. Give me a break! Contrasting a teenager downloading a movie with a shady character breaking in to a car or stealing a TV from someone's apartment. Asinine.
Forget the fact that no one is going to jail for downloading a Cam recording of "Beowulf". At worst, you are looking at a fine... of course that is only in the off chance that you ACTUALLY get caught, which in all reality is pretty fucking slim if you are even remotely smart about it. From what I understand the first thing that will happen is that you will get a warning letter that it a nutshell says," Hey.... HEY!..... Knock it off!"
Last time I checked though, Grand theft Auto and Breaking & Entering were Felonies. Hmm.... not really the same i you ask me.
On the flip side...
If I could go out on the Internet and easily download a program that would allow me to download a brand new Aston Martin V8 Vantage in to my Garage and a 65" Sony Grand Vega Plasma TV in to my living room with the consequences and risk involved with "STEALING" movies and music... You are Fucking right I would steal a car or a TV set.
The RIAA and the MPAA need to embrace the digital age and that is all there is to it... music and movie stores are going the way of the Dodo. Major Movie rental stores are moving there business models to include online access... and regardless of the bureaucratic bullshit they try and implement, they will never be able to control the global community that is the Internet.
They are fighting a losing battle.
And now in the words of Monty Python's Flying Circus, " And now time for something completely different..." (my picture that is)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2008-01-07 10:49:03 EST (#)
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My cousin's husband works in the DVD business in California. We were discussing the future of his career over a brew during New Year's weekend, and he readily admitted that DVDs, CDs, and the like will be obsolete within ten years at most as everything electronic will move towards only accepting streaming media. It's so much cheaper and takes up so little space in one's living room, hence the publishing houses are dying a slow death.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2008-01-07 09:58:12 EST (#)
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So apparently Netflix is planning on offering movies to their customers in streaming, digital form.
Now people can just order things on demand from the comfort of their couches, and forego that terrible, exhausting walk to and from the mailbox. Or their front doorstep. Wherever Netflix things are dropped off. Like I know.
Let the Jabbafication of the population continue.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-01-07 06:16:33 EST (#)
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I'd quite like to bring down the music industry, they're all bastards and all music is shit anyway.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-01-06 20:06:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-01-06 20:06:15 EST (#)
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Submitted by Eugene_Luther (user info) at 2008-01-06 10:12:30 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2008-01-05 23:34:13 EST (#)
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Downloading cam recordings is lame anyway. I'll pass on the shaky camera, missing margins and the occasional popcorn jockey blocking the screen, thanks. DVD-rips and screeners is where it's at.
http://www.ubersite.com/m/112404
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2008-01-05 22:06:01 EST (#)
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Boy no one has ever written this rant before.
Submitted by ICO (user info) at 2008-01-05 21:33:50 EST (#)
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If you really think all the music and movie outlets will go out of business, you're a moron. If all the shops (on and offline) would disappear, the movie business would have to be bankrupt by default, seeing as one can't survive without the other.
Perhaps, the only thing that will happen in time is that a balance will be reached between the works downloaded illegally and the works sold. Máybe some businesses will go bankrupt, but I think there will always be a way to legally buy works like that, and people will keep on doing that.
We've had this commercial on our DVDs for a few years now, and the company I watch these in is pretty much able to bridge the 50 second entertainment gap. If you're too much of a pussy to spend 50 seconds extra on a 2 hour movie, you should be shot in several joints.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2008-01-05 21:26:10 EST (#)
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Most people I know think I'm a dinosaur because I ALWAYS buy movies and TV series from the distributor, and never download. They don't get the fact that it is worth it for me because (i) I like the dvd commentaries - it's like free film school (ii) I like some of the extras, like deleted scenes, but most extras blow, (iii) I like the convenience of chapter stops with little windows on my screen filled with little moving people, and (iv) I like all the audio and subtitle track options. Sure, I could probably find some of that shit online and burn it onto a CD after a lot of screwing around, but if it ain't 1-Click-EZ like looking at titties, I ain't interested.
Good post though.
Submitted by Hookhand (user info) at 2008-01-05 17:00:33 EST (#)
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It's a good time to be a law nerd. The internet has put a new spin on pretty much every single settled and ruled-upon aspect of IP law and everything needs to be relitigated.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-01-05 16:59:09 EST (#)
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informative.
Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-01-05 16:38:00 EST (#)
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You have a very good point, and I agree with you. No matter what, I think that restrictive copyright measures will always be beaten by piracy and the black market, it's like terrorism (except good), just impossible to beat.
Submitted by DarthFaded (user info) at 2008-01-05 16:33:50 EST (#)
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It is not so much skipping them I am concerned with, but more so the premise behind the fact that they are there and the message that it is trying to convey...
But yes... VLC rocks.
:)
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2008-01-05 16:33:09 EST (#)
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I just bought "In Rainbows" on CD.
I'm part of the problem, not part of the solution.
(I had a voucher.)
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2008-01-05 16:30:10 EST (#)
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This has been in the UK for well over a year now.
VLC Media Player lets you skip EVERY SINGLE TRAILER, MESSAGE, AND NOTICE ON A DVD. NO MATTER WHAT.
http://www.videolan.org