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

[Micros50]

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 12:11, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
> 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

My question is this. If the DVD won't play on a legal modern day DVD
player then what the heck does FOX expect you to play it on ? Sounds to 
me like they are selling an overpriced plastic disk.

ize



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