[nylug-talk] [wwwac] The DRM That Almost Stole Christmas (fwd)

[Joseph M. Gaffney]

On Wednesday 27 December 2006 18:39, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
>   Studios decide to
>   just break formats in order to provide some bogus "protection" that
>   does nothing but lock out law-abiding consumers?

Its happened to me... I tend to buy Apex DVD players because they are easily 
firmware ugpradeable, and often hacked, sometimes for things such as this.

That said, I say return it.  I'm one of those letter writing nutjobs, and I 
probably write one or two a week.  I may have one of my letters if you want 
something to start with somewhere on a backup - I will look for it if you'd 
like.

Return it to the store it came from, and make sure they know why.  Its even 
better if you can get them to try and play the DVD on the player your mom 
just got for Christmas, then its more obvious.  If they won't take it, I'd 
fedex it over to Fox's headquarter's, demanding your money back for the 
movie, and the costs of shipping.  I'd also consider filing in small claims 
court ;)

-Joseph M. Gaffney