Shoutbox

linx05, those DVDs _are_ in spec. And almost any DVD player can play them. The problem starts when you want to play them on your PC. And that is exactly the thing. Some DVDs (and CDs) are not meant to be played on a PC, because this is how the copies are made. You do not automatically have the right to play them on whatever you want, especially not on a PC, and that is probably what such a copy protection tries to prevent (it is more common with CDs).


But, the whole discussion and 'state of mind' that people have isn't about 1 rare copy protection which only is used in Germany. People have something against all copy protections, and I'm very sure that 99,99% of all people complaining don't even know about the details of copy protections or even don't know the different methods. People just complain because they think they have every right to do what they want with the DVD/CD, they complain about copy protections in general, heck on everything which prevents them to make copies of which they do not have a right to make them.

It is like that whole "Microsoft sucks" thing. The extremely vast majority of kiddies who say it don't even have a clue why they say it, they just do it because it is considered 'cool'. Does that mean Microsoft never ever did something wrong? No, of course not, they did some nasty things to, just like everybody else. The point is that all this yelling upon those companies is in almost all cases not grounded on anything at all and is just a thing from this time...