Thursday, May 10, 2012
Film Government Endorses Movie Piracy By Warning Against Movie Piracy
Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:34 PM
Thanks to the U.S. Government, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs will soon display two warnings intended to educate viewers about movie piracy. Ars Technica writes:
Will the two screens be shown back to back? Will each screen last for 10 seconds each? Will each screen be unskippable? Yes, yes, and yes.
An ICE spokesman tells me that the two screens will "come up after the previews, once you hit the main movie/play button on the DVD. At which point the movie rating comes up, followed by the IPR Center screen shot for 10 secs and then the FBI/HSI anti-piracy warning for 10 secs as well. Neither can be skipped/fast forwarded through."
"Thanks for legally purchasing and not pirating this movie! Now please sit there while we tell you about how bad pirating movies is. Yes, you have to watch our warning every time you watch this movie that you legally purchased. How else will you know not to pirate movies?" Idiots.
(Via Daring Fireball.)
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I haven't supported that industry for over a year, and even then it was a single movie ticket at a local theater. I really don't see me ever buying a product in the future that assumes I'm a criminal and wastes my time because of it. I don't need to be told how not to break the law when I'm not breaking the law, you need to tell the people breaking the law that they are breaking the law. Copyright has no right existing 70+ years after the death of the artist, if the terms were more reasonable more people would want to respect it.
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But the pirated versions of these DVD & BluRays will not have the inconvenient 20-second nag.
Score one for the pirates!
Score one for the pirates!
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The studios need to look at piracy as a competitor, not a criminal. If you make a good product and let a customer buy use it with minimum hassle, people will buy it.
It wasn't RIAA lawsuits that killed Napster, it was the iTunes music store.
It wasn't RIAA lawsuits that killed Napster, it was the iTunes music store.
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Interesting. None of the movies I've downloaded have those warnings.
Hard to believe that when presented with "competition" providing a better product (their own product improved) for free, they would make their own original product that they're trying to sell me for $20 even worse. Doesn't seem like good business sense to me.
Hard to believe that when presented with "competition" providing a better product (their own product improved) for free, they would make their own original product that they're trying to sell me for $20 even worse. Doesn't seem like good business sense to me.
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As someone who works in post production and actually has made commercial DVDs and BluRays for retail release, this is not going to happen, and is simply unenforceable if they tried. More and more studios don't even bother with the FBI warning or put them all the way past the final credits.
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Fuck this, and while we're at it, fuck movies for purchase that run trailers before the feature. You buy a DVD, you pop it in, and the first screen should be the menu.
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Some of the newer DVDs with DRM will not play in my older computer because it has an "analog" out. Argh.
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Simple solution: all you do is rip those DVDs & then burn copies and you can get rid of any PUOs (Prohibited User Operations) like not being able to skip the copy warnings!
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Every time they do something like this, it only hardens my already stern resolve to never buy physical media again.
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Is this for NTSC DVDs only, or will people renting PAL discs be subject to the same FBI/HSI anti-piracy screenings? Twenty seconds should be enough for people to stretch their legs and go get/open refreshments from the kitchen or plastic store bags, right?
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When making copies of DVDs I am always unsure of whether or not I should include the FBI warning and other anti-piracy propaganda. Sometimes I leave it in, sometimes I leave it out.
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This is why we're crowdsourcing encrypted ISPs here in America.
Fricking nanny state House Gestapo!
Fricking nanny state House Gestapo!
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It's really hard to figure out why people would pirate something when the legal copy of it is deliberately made worse and harder to use. The studios (I almost typed "stupidos") need to think about ADDING value to their legal product, not REMOVING it.
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Why do people care? Do they not have Netflix or something?
DVDs are dead. If you don't offer me a cheap, convenient way to stream your movie I'm either going to pirate it or not watch it. They need to keep up if they want to stay relevant. At this point, I don't even care if they're able to do so or not.
DVDs are dead. If you don't offer me a cheap, convenient way to stream your movie I'm either going to pirate it or not watch it. They need to keep up if they want to stay relevant. At this point, I don't even care if they're able to do so or not.
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It sounds like that scene in Clockwork Orange where Malcolm McDowell has his eyes clipped open so he can be forced to watch a movie.
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The DisneyDVD fast play option takes ten seconds to load and then ten seconds to sit through the explanation we’ve heard eighty times and then another 15 seconds to get to the menu screen. Pointless.
@2 someone needs to send that to the movie companies.
@2 someone needs to send that to the movie companies.
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Copyright is dead.
ICE is enforced by Homeland Security...ya know...because if anyone pirates Load, the terrorists win (but, Lars loses, so I'm cool with it).
ICE is enforced by Homeland Security...ya know...because if anyone pirates Load, the terrorists win (but, Lars loses, so I'm cool with it).
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