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# 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)