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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 951 |
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The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which is made up of companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over copyright warnings used on books, DVDs, CDs, a sports broadcasts. The CCIA says the warnings blatantly overstate the legal restrictions placed on such material and don't do a good enough job explaining the Fair Use provisions in United States copyright law, which allow a certain amount of recording and copying for personal or scholarly use. Read more here | | | Are you local?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | Personally I think all the warnings you get before you watch a DVD are a load of crap. They only annoy the legitimate DVD (or other format) buyers. Especially if you can't skip them. The first thing a pirate does is strip the movie of all warnings (some even strip the end credits  ). I for one like to own legally purchased CD's and DVD's, but it annoys the hell out of me being pointed out time and again I cannot use the DVD illegaly. I know this by now and pirates couldn't care less. | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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| Registered: May 25, 2007 | | Posts: 32 |
| | Posted: | | | | The one thing I like about my Toshiba HD-D2 (same as HD-A2) HD DVD player is that it ignores the UPO (user prohibited operations) flags in standard DVD's, so a quick "Next Chapter" skips right past it  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,216 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yes, they are an impertinence, they only bother those who did pay. Every time I sit in a cinema and one of those trailers comes up I get the almost overwhelming urge to bash the theater-owners head in and yell at the top of my lungs that I friggin payed for the ticket. And I'm usually calm to the point of phlegmatism  cya, Mithi PS One reason why UOP-off is a must for my dvd-player | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Tracer: Quote:
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The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), which is made up of companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, has filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over copyright warnings used on books, DVDs, CDs, a sports broadcasts. The CCIA says the warnings blatantly overstate the legal restrictions placed on such material and don't do a good enough job explaining the Fair Use provisions in United States copyright law, which allow a certain amount of recording and copying for personal or scholarly use.
Read more here Is this still relevant, with all the copy protection around? Even for fair use, you're not allowed to break that. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | is this not a behavior for dvd-players who are set to region free and showing all those warnings? | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 291 |
| | Posted: | | | | what's a "copyright"? kidding...  The warnings are a pain, the "would you steal ... ?" ads are a pain. the auto trailers are a pain.... i pressed the Play icon on the mummy returns last night, then had to skip through a whole load of advertising as well... but yes, they are overstated to try to scare the be-jesus out of people...but welcome to my home... krik | | | | "Vampirism is still not a disease, Julia. Vampires are the living dead...dead...dead..." |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 374 |
| | Posted: | | | | I hate them.
Almost a reason not to buy a DVD. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | They're as annoying as security stickers. We can all thank the idiots who steal and copy for that. | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,216 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
They're as annoying as security stickers. We can all thank the idiots who steal and copy for that. That analogy doesn't fly. The security-stickers actually work, and they should be deactivated as soon as you buy an item. So the honest costumer isn't bothered. Those warning trailers are simply useless. No ripper on the whole planet could give a rats fart about them, he simply ignores them because he is intended to do unlawful stuff anyways. But the honest customer who doled out good money is forced to watch that crap over and over again. cya, Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki | | | | Last edited: by Mithi |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
That analogy doesn't fly. The security-stickers actually work, and they should be deactivated as soon as you buy an item. So the honest costumer isn't bothered. How so? They don't actually stop the item from being stolen, the inner security device does. And the buyer still has to bother with peeling off the stickers...which sometimes rips the covers. I don't really see how "stickers" are deactivated once purchased... People steal = we pay | | | | Corey | | | | Last edited: by Katatonia |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,005 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
They're as annoying as security stickers. This is one thing I do not understand about R1 DVDs. Why the need for those stupid stickers, when the case is already shrink-wrapped? Thankfully we do not have them in Europe. But as I buy most DVDs as R1 this really bothers me often. | | | 
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Katatonia: Quote:
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That analogy doesn't fly. The security-stickers actually work, and they should be deactivated as soon as you buy an item. So the honest costumer isn't bothered.
How so? They don't actually stop the item from being stolen, the inner security device does. And the buyer still has to bother with peeling off the stickers...which sometimes rips the covers.
I don't really see how "stickers" are deactivated once purchased...
People steal = we pay And if they don't steal, we all save. Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
And if they don't steal, we all save.
Skip  Which is always a good thing Skip! | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,694 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TomGaines: Quote:
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They're as annoying as security stickers.
This is one thing I do not understand about R1 DVDs. Why the need for those stupid stickers, when the case is already shrink-wrapped? Thankfully we do not have them in Europe. But as I buy most DVDs as R1 this really bothers me often. Having worked in retail, I can attest that there are some very slick thieves out there who could, and did, get the disc out of a shrink-wrapped package and you couldn't tell it had been done until you picked it up and examined it. As annoying as those anti-theft mag tags and stickers are, they have cut down on a lot of that crap. | | | John
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | They're great they remind you that we have a government not by the people and for the people,
but a government by the corporations and for the corporations. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln |
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