http://soup.juxi.net/ http://soup.juxi.net/ http://6.asset.soup.io/asset/0005/0374_3b93.jpeg 128 128 some random stuff I find interesting today .... {"tags":["Action","Business","copyfight","dvd","funny","movies"],"type":"image","source":"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2B0A5Djo_hc/infographic-buying-d.html","body":"\u003Cstrong\u003EInfographic: buying DVDs vs pirating them\u003C/strong\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\nThis pithy and funny chart does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of \"business model\" (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same disc online. I rip all my kid's DVDs (not least because she has a tendency to scratch them to hell), and the difference between firing up a movie on a laptop and it just \u003Cem\u003Estarting\u003C/em\u003E versus trying to explain to a toddler why Daddy has to spend five minutes pressing next-next-next menu-menu-menu is enormous. I think it all comes down to the stuff in the DVD-CCA spec that allows DVD creators to flag sequences as unskippable: that's such an attractive nuisance, it's \u003Cem\u003Ebound\u003C/em\u003E to attract every hard-sell marketer and power-tripping fool in any media company, who will eventually colonize it with so much crapola that it comes \u003Cem\u003Ejust short\u003C/em\u003E of destroying the possibility that anyone will voluntarily pay for the product. (Be sure to click below for the whole thing)\n\u003Cp\u003E\n\n\u003Ca href=\"http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg\"\u003EIf you are a pirate, this is what you get\u003C/a\u003E\n\n(\u003Ci\u003Evia \u003Ca href=\"http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/\"\u003EMaking Light\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/i\u003E)\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\n\u003Cem\u003EPreviously:\u003C/em\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/30/howto-defeat-apples-.html#previouspost\"\u003EHOWTO defeat Apple's anti-DVD-screenshot DRM - Boing Boing\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/02/cinemanows-burntodvd.html#previouspost\"\u003ECinemaNow's Burn-to-DVD DRM is irresponsibly defective - Boing Boing\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/17/new-sony-dvd-drm-bre.html#previouspost\"\u003ENew Sony DVD DRM breaks Sony DVD players - Boing Boing\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/25/breaking_dvd_drm_is_.html#previouspost\"\u003EBoing Boing: Breaking DVD DRM is legal in Finland\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/21/blurays-bd-drm-broke.html#previouspost\"\u003EBluRay's BD+ DRM broken - Boing Boing\u003C/a\u003E\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ul\u003E\n\u003C/div\u003E\n\n\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Cbr /\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\"http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=1124643dac72f9d071da21ccca6ab43c\u0026amp;p=1\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1124643dac72f9d071da21ccca6ab43c\u0026amp;p=1\" alt=\"\" /\u003E\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003Cimg src=\"http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226\" height=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" /\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/2B0A5Djo_hc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" /\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","url":"http://0.asset.soup.io/asset/0704/2896_8999.jpeg"} <p><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/2B0A5Djo_hc/infographic-buying-d.html"><img alt="2896_8999_400" height="270" src="http://0.asset.soup.io/asset/0704/2896_8999_400.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p> <p><strong>Infographic: buying DVDs vs pirating them</strong><br /><br /> This pithy and funny chart does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of "business model" (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same disc online. I rip all my kid's DVDs (not least because she has a tendency to scratch them to hell), and the difference between firing up a movie on a laptop and it just <em>starting</em> versus trying to explain to a toddler why Daddy has to spend five minutes pressing next-next-next menu-menu-menu is enormous. I think it all comes down to the stuff in the DVD-CCA spec that allows DVD creators to flag sequences as unskippable: that's such an attractive nuisance, it's <em>bound</em> to attract every hard-sell marketer and power-tripping fool in any media company, who will eventually colonize it with so much crapola that it comes <em>just short</em> of destroying the possibility that anyone will voluntarily pay for the product. (Be sure to click below for the whole thing) <p> <a href="http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg">If you are a pirate, this is what you get</a> (<i>via <a href="http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/">Making Light</a></i>) </p><div> <em>Previously:</em><ul><li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/30/howto-defeat-apples-.html#previouspost">HOWTO defeat Apple's anti-DVD-screenshot DRM - Boing Boing</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/02/cinemanows-burntodvd.html#previouspost">CinemaNow's Burn-to-DVD DRM is irresponsibly defective - Boing Boing</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/17/new-sony-dvd-drm-bre.html#previouspost">New Sony DVD DRM breaks Sony DVD players - Boing Boing</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/25/breaking_dvd_drm_is_.html#previouspost">Boing Boing: Breaking DVD DRM is legal in Finland</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/21/blurays-bd-drm-broke.html#previouspost">BluRay's BD+ DRM broken - Boing Boing</a></li> </ul> </div> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=1124643dac72f9d071da21ccca6ab43c&amp;p=1"><img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=1124643dac72f9d071da21ccca6ab43c&amp;p=1" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226" height="0" alt="" width="0" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~4/2B0A5Djo_hc" height="1" width="1" /><p></p></p>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:24:04 GMThttp://soup.juxi.net/post/46292257/Infographic-buying-DVDs-vs-pirating-themurn:www-soup-io:1:46292257imageactionbusinesscopyfightdvdfunnymovies