Simviation Forum - Video copyrights

Mar 14^th, 2010 at 7:47pm

Steve M Offline
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Not sure where to put this, but it's about video. We rented the BBC cd of Roy Clarks "Keeping up appearances". I have three video programs on my PC. None of them will play the cd because of copyright protection! When I plug my dvd player into my TV tuner on the PC I can not only play the dvd, but if I wanted to I could record it and send it anywhere I want to. Even burn it to my own CD. Whats the point of all this copyright blockage if it doesn't work? All I wanted to do was watch it on a better screen with better sound. Roll Eyes

I got to go now.. Hyacinth is trying to get rid of Onslo and Daisy. Grin

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Reply #1 - Mar 15^th, 2010 at 7:18pm

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And I thought my parents were the only ones hooked on that show... Wink

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Reply #2 - Mar 15^th, 2010 at 7:34pm

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Remember... Pirates get the better movie experience. Whilst you sit through hours of trailers they simply pop in the DVD and skip right to the action.

It has never been fair for those who do it the right and legal way, but we still have to do it. Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Mar 15^th, 2010 at 8:18pm

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machineman9 wrote on Mar 15^th, 2010 at 7:34pm:

Remember... Pirates get the better movie experience. Whilst you sit through hours of trailers they simply pop in the DVD and skip right to the action.

It has never been fair for those who do it the right and legal way, but we still have to do it. Roll Eyes

To explain.. I am not in any way talking about pirating. I pay for all of my movies.. some I purchace.. some I rent. Some DVD's will play on my pc and the copyright blocks don't stop you from viewing, only from recording or burning. All of the BBC DVD's I have however will not even let you view. So if you run the DVD through your sophisticated television set up, you can play it, record it, and if you so desired, give it to your friends. As soon as you try to play these on your PC software, you are blocked. You should be only blocked from recording, not just viewing. And that is my point here.

I know that there is software out there that gets around this but I don't want to "get around it". Just want watch it ON my pc, legally. Whew! That was a mouthfull. Wink

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Reply #4 - Mar 16^th, 2010 at 1:38pm

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Oh no, I'm not saying you are pirating, I'm merely going over some of the difficulties that paying customers have to go through when it should be much simpler. In your case, being blocked from watching it at all.

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Reply #5 - Mar 16^th, 2010 at 6:06pm

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machineman9 wrote on Mar 16^th, 2010 at 1:38pm:

Oh no, I'm not saying you are pirating, I'm merely going over some of the difficulties that paying customers have to go through when it should be much simpler. In your case, being blocked from watching it at all.

We are on the same page! Wink

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