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Old 01-07-2005, 05:18 PM   #1
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Is this some sort of sick joke???
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Old 01-07-2005, 05:25 PM   #2
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Sadly, I suspect this is true. My brother was telling me the other day that the DVD player wouldn't let him fast forward the trailers on Shaun of the Dead, so it apparently enforceable, at least in so far as most people wont be able to, or wont be bothered to, bypass it.
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Old 01-07-2005, 05:32 PM   #3
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Yet more GREED. Greed is the downfall of EVERYTHING. AOL, is going out of business soon I predict, because of greed.
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Old 01-07-2005, 05:34 PM   #4
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AOL's no big loss, but by God this is ridicolous!
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Old 01-07-2005, 05:42 PM   #5
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If they do that, I'm going back to VHS.
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Old 01-07-2005, 06:03 PM   #6
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If they do that, I'l keep using Kazaa.
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Old 01-07-2005, 06:29 PM   #7
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If they do that, I'm going back to VHS.
Ditto re that. Bad enough TV forces advertising crap down our throats, and radio, AND junk mail and e-mail!
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Old 01-07-2005, 06:46 PM   #8
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So, the dastardly fast-forward felon costs the industry vast amounts of money.

And to save the poor honest advertisment viewers a price rise, they're going to build in fast-forward protections (for just a little bit extra). Who knows how many of these criminals are out there. Perhaps there are so many that the price of DVDs can actually be lowered. There have to be -some- precedents of something like that. Somewhere.

And it's all fair, right? It's not like you -have- to watch the DVD you bought or rented or didn't even get yet. That's a personal choice. There is no-one forcing you to watch the ads if you do not want to see the movie.


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I was thinking, it also costs the DVD maker money if you get up and walk away during the advertisments. People choosing to watch a DVD should be forced to sit it out from start to finish. Sure, they can pause it to fetch a drink or use the bathroom, but they should have to sit and wait for the advertisements at the end of the disk as well. They can skip the movie though and fast-forward to the commercial parts.

No doubt they will want to ensure you can't turn down the volume either.

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You poor souls, spending money on DVD players.

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Old 01-07-2005, 07:00 PM   #9
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Yeah, also TivO is soon making it not allow FF of commercials or you can, but you gotta watch ad banners. Uh, Wasn't Tivo one reason to skip commercials? (Besides taping shows)?? Don't these commercial people know that by forcing us to watch them, it angers us, and we WILL NEVER buy what they force us to watch? Morons.. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
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Old 01-07-2005, 07:02 PM   #10
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This is promoting piracy. At least it's not helping counter-piracy.
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