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Originally Posted by ApK
Not only might more people prefer to get a pirated version just to avoid this annoyance, but the only people who HAVE sit through it are the people who DON'T KNOW HOW TO COPY A DISK anyway, because anyone who DOES KNOW could run off and click the "Main movie only" option and make themselves a new copy. So I would not be surprised if this waste of time prompts some people who didn't know how to make a pirated even if they wanted to, to LEARN HOW.
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It isn't just the people who don't know how, but also those who couldn't be bothered. You're talking for some people, it may be a couple hours learning how, trial and error, etc. For many people, they'd rather just deal with the stupid stuff.
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Originally Posted by ApK
If merely being informed of the law by a 10 second text screen threatens and intimidates you, you must have had a miserable time in grade school. Or do you have a different definition for those words than the rest of us?
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It isn't threatening or intimidation. It is just annoyance. We've bought the movie legally, so why should we be forced to be reminded that not buying the movie is bad? If I thought not buying the movie was good, I'd not have bought the movie in the first place, and not see the warnings anyway. It really just is preaching to the choir.
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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73
Netflix. Or Redbox. It has been a couple of years since I bought a DVD. I'm not doing BlueRay.
People complain about the selection on Netflix but Redbox has new release DVDs of movies and Netflix has a lot of great stuff for instant streaming. From silent movies (loves me some early Fritz Lang) to Let the Right One In, etc. I mostly stream TV shows, though. I love the British Being Human and comedies like Black Books (wish there were more) and the IT Crowd.
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I buy a lot of movies, and use Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and Redbox. with the nondisk services, we don't get hammered with warnings, because they know we're being legal in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
If you're only going to watch it once, ripping to remove the warnings is pointless. If you're going to watch it every other Saturday for the next three months with a different pack of friends each time, it's not.
I suppose people can start using the warning message as "fetch your drinks" time.
That would be *awesome.* Why do I think it's never going to happen that way?
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But, most people do that while they're up, putting the disk in the player, etc. Most people get drinks and snacks, put the disk in, then sit down, grab the remote and start the movie.