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

[Paul Robbins]

They were really just disguising it as a DVD, when in fact it was a free
1500 hours of AOL CD.

On 12/28/06, H. G. <tekronis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/28/06, Micros50 <micros50 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
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> Perhaps it was meant as a Christmas tree ornament?
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