{"id":890,"date":"2007-03-07T17:47:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T17:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2007-03-07T17:47:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T17:47:12","slug":"who_are_you_calling_a_pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/who_are_you_calling_a_pirate\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Are You Calling a Pirate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the image that appears below the fold from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/03\/05\/best_antipiracy_grap.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>, and while I don&#8217;t have particularly strong feelings about copyright, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_Rights_Management\">digital rights managment (DRM)<\/a>, or the future of media distribution like the Boing Boing crew, I do very much agree with the sentiments it expresses:<\/p>\n<p>[A warning to my language-sensitive readers: naughty language ahead, including the Queen of Naughty Words. Not just once, either.]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Damn right!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/piracy2.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"522\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These anti-piracy warnings are actually just one aspect of one of my biggest pet peeves, which is the way so many DVDs throw up a bunch of impediments to actually reaching <i>the content<\/i> of the discs. Trailers for other movies, ads for television and soundtrack tie-ins, commercials for stuff that has nothing to do with anything, those damn anti-piracy screens, and even overly elaborate menus with animated intros really annoy the hell out of me. On most discs, you can opt out of all this crap and skip straight to the menu; on many discs, however, you can&#8217;t (DVDs produced by Universal are notorious for non-skippable pre-content content). Either way, you shouldn&#8217;t <i>have<\/i> to skip all that crap. You paid to rent or own the DVD, so why shouldn&#8217;t you be able to instantly access the part of it you really want to see?<\/p>\n<p>If I controlled the universe, every DVD would boot quickly with a simple, non-animated, easy-to-read and easy-to-use menu. Trailers for other properties would be accessible from the menu <i>for those who are interested<\/i>. Legal warnings, if they&#8217;re <i>really<\/i> necessary, could follow the main program, like they used to in the early, early days of VHS. (Sorry, I don&#8217;t believe piracy is really that big of a problem; I just <i>don&#8217;t<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I care more about all this stuff than I thought I did&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up the image that appears below the fold from Boing Boing, and while I don&#8217;t have particularly strong feelings about copyright, digital rights managment (DRM), or the future of media distribution like the Boing Boing crew, I do very much agree with the sentiments it expresses: [A warning to my language-sensitive readers: naughty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}