Dear Encore Films: WTF?

[elbales]

Holy Moses. I take back every bad thing I've ever said about the ads and copyright statements that run at the beginning of American DVDs. At least you can skip the ads. Right now I'm watching a DVD from Malaysia, and you're forced to sit through nine minutes of trailers and such. Seriously?
 

Comments

[akk]

It's the same with the majority of newer European dvds. Skipping has been blocked for a long time, fast forward "vanished" around the time of the 3D hype.
(I noticed, because I *hate* 3D, the darn glasses required in the cinema don't fit over my conscription glasses. Up until Avatar, I eschewed cinema for lack of money (and interesting films). Now I have money, now they exclude me on purpose. Blah!)
At the same type, companies are demanding increasingly forceful for a stronger copyright, higher fees, heavier punishments, etc. pp. because of piracy (why it's called piracy? Do the sellers of bootlegged DVDs have parrots and wooden legs?).
Personally, I think they wouldn't have problems with copied stuff, when they'd stop making their legit stuff virtually unusable because of it.

[theta-g.livejournal.com]

Surely you know about VLC? Or H will, ya?