Blu-Ray: F*** You
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I don't pay taxes for the same reason you download movies from the Net.
It takes too long to wait in line at the store, I just walk out the door with my items.
That's a very good analogy. Even though I have been hypocritical about this in the past, I do at least acknowledge that, if you're boycotting something, it means you can't get the benefit of it at the same time. If you're want to enjoy the product, you have to be willing to put up with their restrictions. If you are unwilling to put up with the restrictions, you have to not have the product. It's how a boycott is supposed to work
That and in this case boycotting the pervasive advertising on DVDs -of which I'm not a huge fan of- by getting bootlegs is sort of like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Because the advertising on the DVDs is due to, in part, bootlegging.
Jesus, just press the damn "chapter skip" button or use the few minutes it takes the previews to run to get your popcorn, use the bathroom, rub one out, whatever. Sheesh.
Jesus, just press the damn "chapter skip" button or use the few minutes it takes the previews to run to get your popcorn, use the bathroom, rub one out, whatever. Sheesh.
Heres the point I don't fathom. I assume that you have no problem making legitimate purchases of titles if those previews didn't waste your time?
And clearly you (by your examples) use technological means to download (what can be 50 gigs to match the quality of a Blu-ray feature) large amounts of data, store said data and then play said data. This requires (I would assume) high speed internet (how much does that cost?, how much does downloading an equal quality product require you to alter what you normally would use the internet for if the blu rays removed that feature), and of course it does require some time to do.
So clearly this option has certain costs to it, set time issues, and the alteration of normal patterns of your internet use.
If this is "the" reason you bit torrent for bluray quality films, then why not just buy them and rip them your self?
As your point is clear you can absolutely remove that on your own. You can create those same files. Hell you can do it automatically as easy as it is to download.
In fact in my house its easier. Less steps. Put Disc in, drag icon to program and in 5 steps that takes about a minute program does the rest, let it go for the night and low and behold here is my file. It takes me longer and more steps to find and locate the bluray file on a torrent site, verify its status (and its quality) let it do its business, then the option listed above. In both cases the time intensive processing (or downloading) can be done either when one sleeps or in the background while you perform other tasks.
And it gives you the full options for languages, bonus features, and low and behold even the trailers if you are so inclined.
And clearly you (by your examples) use technological means to download (what can be 50 gigs to match the quality of a Blu-ray feature) large amounts of data, store said data and then play said data. This requires (I would assume) high speed internet (how much does that cost?, how much does downloading an equal quality product require you to alter what you normally would use the internet for if the blu rays removed that feature), and of course it does require some time to do.
So clearly this option has certain costs to it, set time issues, and the alteration of normal patterns of your internet use.
If this is "the" reason you bit torrent for bluray quality films, then why not just buy them and rip them your self?
As your point is clear you can absolutely remove that on your own. You can create those same files. Hell you can do it automatically as easy as it is to download.
In fact in my house its easier. Less steps. Put Disc in, drag icon to program and in 5 steps that takes about a minute program does the rest, let it go for the night and low and behold here is my file. It takes me longer and more steps to find and locate the bluray file on a torrent site, verify its status (and its quality) let it do its business, then the option listed above. In both cases the time intensive processing (or downloading) can be done either when one sleeps or in the background while you perform other tasks.
And it gives you the full options for languages, bonus features, and low and behold even the trailers if you are so inclined.
Now I don't know the age of the original poster, but history of purchased home media entertainment started really with the VCR, and those did indeed have trailers before the main feature (hell and a few, thankfully just a few had normal commercials and anti piracy warnings and ads) and in all of those the only way to get to the feature was watching those first. Either by normal play or by fast forward.
That format lasted so far longer then DVD and Blu-Ray's have been on the market.
DVD was the first technology to allow a single button to allow you in many cases to bypass some of these ad ons. But it wasn't available in all discs (some did force you , if you were so inclined, to use the fast forward).
So no inane complaints about VHS driving you to bootleg (and yes you could on the usenet back in the day), no equal rant on DVD's (and again can certainly bootleg there as well).
Your rant seems entirely based on Blu-Ray, which frankly isn't rational.
That format lasted so far longer then DVD and Blu-Ray's have been on the market.
DVD was the first technology to allow a single button to allow you in many cases to bypass some of these ad ons. But it wasn't available in all discs (some did force you , if you were so inclined, to use the fast forward).
So no inane complaints about VHS driving you to bootleg (and yes you could on the usenet back in the day), no equal rant on DVD's (and again can certainly bootleg there as well).
Your rant seems entirely based on Blu-Ray, which frankly isn't rational.
Re: Blu-Ray: Fuck You
The first Sixth Sense DVD that came out had eight minutes of unskippable trailers. It was awful.
The first Sixth Sense DVD that came out had eight minutes of unskippable trailers. It was awful.
Re: Blu-Ray: Fuck You
The inability to skip parts of a DVD is entirely software based. Lots of players have a handset hack that removes software restrictions on skipping copyright notices and trailers. As do some DVD player software for your computer, like VLC.
Unfortunately with blu ray the AACS encryption system used makes it very difficult for non-licensed vendors to create software that will decrypt the disks, which is why there are so few software blu ray players for Windows, and licensed members would not deploy a system that would allow you to circumvent these features.
The inability to skip parts of a DVD is entirely software based. Lots of players have a handset hack that removes software restrictions on skipping copyright notices and trailers. As do some DVD player software for your computer, like VLC.
Unfortunately with blu ray the AACS encryption system used makes it very difficult for non-licensed vendors to create software that will decrypt the disks, which is why there are so few software blu ray players for Windows, and licensed members would not deploy a system that would allow you to circumvent these features.
I actually still have an old non-name brand DVD player that's probably ten years old or so, and when I occasionally come across something I can't fastforward or skip through, it does allow me to go straight to the DVD's root menu so I can skip it that way.
The DVD player I brought last year...not a chance.
The DVD player I brought last year...not a chance.
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