On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:29:53 -0700 Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/2013 6:13 PM, deadalnix wrote: > > Unless the industry is showing signs of understanding, I'm done > > with theses stuffs. When amateurs can do better for free, you are > > not providing any service, you are just scamming your customers. > > I don't know about scamming, but I find the business practice of > ignoring people who want to throw money at you to be utterly baffling. > > For example, I want to watch Forbrydelsen. It's only available as > Region 2 DVDs. I have several dvd/bluray players, none will play it. > What the hell? It's 6 years old. Who is making money off of me not > being able to watch it? > > (Amazon sez: "It won't play on standard DVD/Blu-ray players sold in > the United States.") > > I'm unimpressed. Totally agree. The suits in the media sectors are fucking idiots and need to be jailed for *everyone's* good. Not that we should need to, but luckily there are ways to exercise our fair use rights (well, at least with movies anyway): http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/ And if it's a DVD9 video, then also: http://www.dvdshrink.org/ As a bonus they'll also get rid of all that PUO bullshit. Now if only there were similarly easy equivalents to kill the regions, unskippable bullshit and non-backupability (and I *do* literally mean actual "backup") in videogames...Seriously though, as horrible as RIAA/MPAA are in terms of consumer rights the videogame (and mobile apps, too) world is far worse.
