[LINK] creatives angry about copyrestricted DVDs

[matthew at sorbs.net]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com>
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:06 am
Subject: [LINK] creatives angry about copyrestricted DVDs
> http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/collateral-damage-in--video-war-
> 20090110-7e0x.html
> This guy may be on his own, but he has a point.


Is he on his own though?

I agree whole heartedly.  I have a Pioneer DVD player and a DSE (store
brand) DVD Recorder.  Some copy protected DVD's will not play on the DVD
Recorder, however, because the Pioneer player is now defunct, and I have
a fully functional DVD Player/Recorder, I'm not going to buy another
player just for some broken standard DVD's (just like non standard
"CD"s) that will not play in my shop bought player.

Funny thing is though my partner has a habit of ripping DVDs, something
that I am slowly persuading her against.  She has less problems copying
the broken disks and creating working copies, than I do playing the
broken disks on the shop bought DVD player.

For the record and as a little warning to others, I do not buy Sony CD's
or products anymore because of their Rookit exploits and refusal to
apologise to us the customers a few years back.  Especially when the
last time I put one of their "CD"s in my Mazda CX-7 6 disc auto-changing
MP3 playing sound system (the one that comes with the car) it jammed the
player and it cost $200 to have the disc removed.  Every CD I buy now
must show the Phillips owned "Compact Disk" logo, or I do not buy it. 
Mazda made it quite clear that it would cost me $200 everytime to have
non "CD"s removed from the player if they jammed it, and their
experience has been that "CD"s not showing "Compact Disk" logos are the
biggest cause of player malfunction/jamming.


Regards,

Michelle