Re: Disney: Blu-ray Needs Lower Player Prices

FDR wrote:
> phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 18:12:08 -0700 Bill's News <billsnews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> | Side note:
>> | It seems to me that, in the recent month or two - others chime | in 
>> if I'm wrong here - some Blu-Ray discs I've played get to the | main 
>> menu much more quickly, immediately following the logo. | And some 
>> skip the menu entirely, leaving it up to me to invoke | it from the 
>> remote.  I can not FF through the $250,000 and/or 5 | year warning 
>> preceding the movie, but that's it - then the | movie.  Oh, there are 
>> still those BD discs that also provide | additional inane legalese in 
>> a variety of languages and others | which still play commercials 
>> before the menu, but I may be | favoring the few studios which get 
>> down to the business of | playing the movie most quickly - without 
>> even paying attention | to which studio(s) that may be.  I think one 
>> of these nicer | discs was from Universal?
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>> I've been seeing a number of discs that no longer have an FBI 
>> warning.  Maybe
>> the laws are strong enough now that they feel they don't need to make 
>> sure
>> people are notified about it; everyone should know by now.  That, and 
>> it is
>> harder to copy (many DVD recorders will refuse to record from a 
>> playback of
>> another copy protected DVD).
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> I find it funny that they have them anyway.  My understanding of law is 
> that you can break a law and not use the defense that you didn't know 
> the law was in existence.  So this FBI warning amounts to just scare 
> tactics at best.


Yup... ignorance of the law has never been any plausible defense for 
violating it.  Like stealing a purse, I need to be told it's illegal 
before I can be convicted of theft?  Hardly.

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jer
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