DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings

bonch writes "DVDs and Blu-Rays will begin displaying two unskippable anti-piracy screens, each 10 seconds long, shown back-to-back. Six studios have agreed to begin using the new notices. Of course, pirated versions won't contain these 20-second notices; however, an ICE spokesman says the intent isn't to deter piracy but to educate the public."

Re:Educate the public?

[RandomAdam]

http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg [imgur.com]

Re:You didn't had these allready?

[russotto]

These are different than the ones you're talking about. It seems they've caught on to the workaround of "put the disk in, go make some popcorn / get a beer / take a piss, come back and press 'play movie'". So these will appear after you press 'play movie'. Even more obnoxious. If I were running the pirate bay I'd send them a nice thank-you letter.

Obligatory Car Analogy

[codegen]

Its like police with radar guns on the side of the highway stopping everybody going under the speed limit to remind them about the penalty for speeding.

Re:Twenty Seconds?

[HornWumpus]

Google your DVD player model. IIRC my old players 'safeword' was hitting three buttons on the front at the same time. Most of the non-name brand players have this 'feature'. New one came from the factory with noskip disabled.

Re:that's the reason I prefer the pirate version

[Fluffeh]

For DVDs, I find that DVD::RIP (Ubuntu) is excellent assuming you set it up to use the cluster. It works fast - I can rip the VOB files in around 5-8 minutes per movie and the encoding takes 6-9 minutes (although I can be ripping another movie at that stage), and is pretty easy to get most DVDs done. If you do want some more features, then Handbrake is probably the best featured tool out there and it supports .mkvs with h.264 which makes for excellent quality and features. If I am doing shows, I generally switch to my Windows laptop and use DVD-Decrypter and AutoGK combination. Although a little slower, it has a much better queue function between the two of them. AutoGK also has an excellent "Show only Forced Subtitles" function which is fantastic for movies where you do want subtitles, but only for a few scenes, and not the entire time.

While certain discs do have exceptionally troublesome protection on them, AnyDVD seems to work a charm and also greatly increases the rip time as the ripping software no longer has to decrypt on the fly, but treats the data as having no encryption.

While I haven't tinkered with BR discs yet, I have read that BR on Ubuntu is tedious at the moment, I will eventually start the process up.

Re:Educate the public?

[Technician]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_Forum [wikipedia.org]

They promised the content providers

Region Encoding
Copy Protection
Encryption
Forced viewing of the piracy warning

Re:Twenty Seconds?

[ozmanjusri]

In MythTV, hit (M)enu, then select Root menu.

Then rip the DVD and watch it later without the garbage.

Workaround

[manu0601]

We have the same stuff on french DVD, thought not on all of them : I suspect they are not mandatory. However, there is a workaround. Selecting France's french gives me the lengthy antipiracy warning, but I skip it if I select Belgian french.

Re:Educate the public?

[SuricouRaven]

Because DVDs are encrypted. To play a DVD (Without breaking the encryption, which is illegal in most of the world) requires a license from the DVDCCA, who then supply the appropriate key. This license imposes a number of conditions regarding what a DVD player may and may not do, one of which is respecting the can't-skip-this feature. It also requires players respect region lockout, specifies some anti-tamper requirements, prohibits digital outputs without encryption (only video, SPDIF is fine) and things like that. The DVDCCA has gotten quite lax in enforcement now because they realise that with CSS broken there isn't much point.

Blu-ray runs in exactly the same manner. If you want to (legally) play, you need a license. The license mandates the rest of the DRM, such as requiring HDCP on output.

Re:Twenty Seconds?

[Man On Pink Corner]

You only think you're joking. Google Wickard v Filburn.

Re:Ugh

[L4t3r4lu5]

The Avengers will make a loss. All Hollywood movies make a loss. Profit is not allowed, because it means Hollywood has to pay people royalties.

Hollywood Accounting [wikipedia.org]