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DVDs and Blu-rays will now carry two unskippable government warnings

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I can't imagine how the government could possibly do a better job of encouraging piracy.

Oblig. cartoon: http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg

You can achieve the same experience by ripping the discs you've bought. The question is do people actually do that?

No they don't.

Yes, we do.

Why are they threatening the people who actually paid for the product?

This feels pretty relevant as well:

http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg

Its really strange, I get annoyed each time I put on a dvd for my son. If it at least could remember that I've seen the warnings and the spinning universal 100 times before.

I wrote a blog post in frustration a while back, wishing we would get cookies in the dvd to avoid that. :) http://text.krona.tm/post/11012559642/bring-cookies-from-the...

As ICE Director John Morton announced in a statement yesterday, "Law enforcement must continue to expand how it combats criminal activity"

Does anyone else think this is a terrible allocation of resources?

I paid for the disc. What are they yelling at ME for?

The only explanation I can come up with is that they are targeting the people who are ripping the DVDs for distribution. So 5 people on the whole world. Sounds reasonable :/

Ah, those who are already aware of, and unconcerned by, the warning.

And I would doubt that anyone who's ripping professionally is unaware of the (potential) legal consequences, should they get caught.

I recall hearing that it's to try to make piracy be seen as less socially acceptable.

It's working for guns, might as well try the same for DVDs.

I'm sure the consumer will love this. I wonder when(if) these will be added to non-physical media (i.e., Netflix).

I was wondering about that myself. I couldn't find a reference to the actual published rules on this, but I wonder why it is limited to just disks. Is it because they're a physical medium, or is it just a matter of time before we have unskippable segments at the start of itunes/amazon/netflix/etc videos as well?

Unfortunately Steve Jobs isn't around anymore to tell them to shove it...

"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."

ugh. I detest the start of watching video on bluray for the warnings already (to be fair, this is also from ads that are usually skippable but still delay proceedings). 10 more seconds on a screen that isn't even for me. Really winning hearts and minds.

"We did something. It did not work. Clearly the solution is to do more of it."

What causes people to think like this?

People still buy DVDs? How quaint.

Yeah, people really needed one more reason to dump DVDs and Blu-Rays.

Thanks, government!

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