A poster in #lexx on fefnet pointed this Electronic Frontier Foundation breif out to us this morning.

I wondered what the freak was going over Christmas. I had a bunch of DVD's to watch and SOME would not let me get the movie started. Talk about aggervated. I was ready to return my new TV/DVD combo player. :x

What freaking jerks, I bought a movie, I paid for it, why should I have to watch commericals just to see the movie.

[quote]V. Proposed Class #3: Unskippable DVD Advertising
A. Class of Works for Which Exemption is Sought Audiovisual works released on DVD that contain access control measures that interfere with the ability to control private performance, including the ability to skip promotional materials.

B. Summary Movie studios are able to make certain DVD content “unskippable” during playback. Some studios have abused this feature by preventing the skipping of advertising shown prior to the start of the feature presentation. DVD owners should be entitled to eliminate these mandatory ads, or, in the alternative, defeat the “UOP blocking” feature, and should enjoy an exemption
from DMCA liability when they do so. Page 25 [url]http://eff.org/IP/DMCA/20021218_EFFPKcomments.pdf[/url] [/quote]

For some reason Parents objected to the required four minutes of Disney commericals EVERY time their kids played the movie. Go figure. :D
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