> Here's an example of an aggravation people have learned to put up with.
> How many times have you popped in a DVD and been forced to sit through:
>
> 1) The "COPYING A DVD IS *THEFT* message, as told by a jerky short film.
> 2) The ubiquitous FBI warning, both in English and French.
> 3) Previews of movies you're not interested in.
>
> You can't stop them. You can't hit "Menu" and get out of them. The best
> you can do sometimes is hit "Fast Forward" so you don't have to listen
> to the crap for the umpteenth time.
Fortunately for us, US courts have so far ruled that it is fair use to
make a derivative copy of the DVD with the excess crap stripped out.
Although this was only pushed through because of the "Think of the
Children!" coalitions and their demanding to be able to, e.g. strip
the word "ass" out of Shrek. Or the sex scene out of Matrix Reloaded.
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