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# I was very annoyed the other day.


I bought a DVD, as in purchased a retail version of a DVD. For money.

When I put it in the DVD player, it started playing trailers for other fillums. It wouldn't let me access the menu while they were playing, so I skipped past the first. Then there was another. I skipped past. There was another. I skipped past. There was another. I skipped past that. Then there was an actual fucking advert for fucking malteesers!
I'm livid about this; I've paid for that fillum, so I don't expect to be advertised at, and I certainly don't want the distributor to prevent me immediately playing the film.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:47, archived)
# yup
and why is it that all the DVDs you buy have an anti piracy advert on, but the pirate DVDs your mate has doesn't? :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:48, archived)
# This is happening more often
What really grinds my gears are those film piracy adverts.

I've just bought this DVD on which you have placed a piracy ad. You're preaching to the converted! In fact, you're making me want to commit film piracy just so I don't have to see that bloody advert anymore!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:49, archived)
# YOU WOULDNT PUNCH AN OLD LADY AND THEN SHIT IN A POLICEMANS HELMET!
(I helped save b3ta! Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:53, archived)
# That's the thing
How would they know?!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:55, archived)
# This whole digital media thing is fucked up.
It really is.

Everyone knows that DRM stuff is unfair on the customer, which is why Apple and that lot are scrapping it wherever possible. But it's still happing for films and the new on-demand TV stuff.

For example, as I use Linux at home and not windows, I find it impossible to legally buy digital media. They just won't sell it to me. "You need to have Windows" they say. Which means I would, to stay legal, have to buy an operating system for £100 or whatever, just in order to watch/ listen to downloaded media.

So I can't use these online on-demand rental systems and I can't catch up with the telly. Unless I download from bittorrent or something, which is supposedly illegal and makes my ISP do things to my traffic.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:54, archived)
# Who exactly says what exactly?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:58, archived)
# Exactly!
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:59, archived)
# Righto.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:00, archived)
# So did you rush out and buy some Maltesers, then?
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:49, archived)
# There's no such thing as bad publicity.
This is why representatives of maltesers are now waking people up in the middle of the night, in their bedrooms, with megaphones. It's proving very effective.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:55, archived)
# I bet they call them 'Malteser Geezers'.
BUY MORE MALTESERS YOU FUCKING PISSCRANES
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:08, archived)
# I haven't read the word "pisscranes" since TVgohome
are you secretly Charlie Brooker?
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:10, archived)
# Yes. But not so secretly anymore.
It's my favourite word of all time and can be heard numerous times in my workplace as scorn is poured on fucktards. Of which there is a bountiful supply of.

I love them really.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:23, archived)
# *poke*
If you're really Charlie Brooker, your stuff is ace. Well done.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:29, archived)
# I love taking the credit for other people's work.
It makes me feel like my boss.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:45, archived)
# I love masturbating
It makes me feel like I'm doing a sex with my own hands.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:46, archived)
# I love horses.
Sometimes I sit on them awkwardly 'til they go numb and feel like someone else's horses.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 12:10, archived)
# Yes.
Then I ripped them and put them on bittorrent for the world to download for free! Ha ha ha ha etc.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:56, archived)
# *downloads*
*noms*


*is arrested*
(I helped save b3ta! Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Thu 10 Apr 2008, 10:59, archived)
# Ha ha, excellent.
(I helped save b3ta! An Eagle in Your Mind, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:06, archived)
# this^
i agree, film companies are forcing me to download movies from the internet with this heavy handed advertising.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Thu 10 Apr 2008, 11:09, archived)