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Are Copyright Warnings too Scary?
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar ContributorTracer
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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.


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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.
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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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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 

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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.


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Is this still relevant, with all the copy protection around? Even for fair use, you're not allowed to break that.
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is this not a behavior for dvd-players who are set to region free and showing all those warnings?
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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...

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I hate them.

Almost a reason not to buy a DVD.
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They're as annoying as security stickers. We can all thank the idiots who steal and copy for that.
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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.

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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
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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.


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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.

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And if they don't steal, we all save.

Skip


Which is always a good thing Skip!
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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.
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