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Australia Rules DVD's are Films, Not Software
divereigh writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that an Australian Federal court has decided this case in favour of the Australian Video Rental Association. The Association had taken Warner Home Video to court for trying to classify DVD's as software and thus double the price for those sold into the rental market."
Not that this isn't a good thing in the long run, but who does it really benefit now? I mean, if things in Australia are like they are in the US, Blockbuster still charges a premium for DVD rental over VHS rental even though a VHS movie might cost $120 and a DVD of the same movie $15.
Why is that, exactly? Is this the CD pricing scheme all over again? I stopped going to brick-and-mortar video stores and started a NetFlix account. It's a little less convienent, but I pay $2-3 per movie depending on how many I manage to cram into a month.
Phathead
This is only further proof that hackers and others who break DVD encryption and "steal" the content are crooks and criminals who only harm the real consumers. Because Oz, as we all know, was a prison colony.
Josh
I believe someone already said it best, that is, you are a fucking dumbass. But that aside, I can play the DVD legally if I boot into M$ and run it on my computers DVD player, but if I remain in Linux and run it on the same player, it's illegal? I don't follow.
uh, australia? what the fook does that have to do with the United States?
Isn't it obvious? He's a kiwi and sick of always hearing about those loud bastards across the tasman !
Maybe, but the United States invented the whole damned thing, so what do we care?
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Wrong.
The world wide web was the brainchild and invention of Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist working at the European Union-funded CERN particle research project. Yes, the Internet was born out of ARPAnet, a US military network but, as it exists today, it is arguably more international an endeavour than you'd ever like to admit.
This ignorant, "if it's not Uncle Sam, I don't give a damn", USA-centric view of the world is exactly what the original parent comment was arguing against. And, boy, did you prove him right with your revisionist rant.
Oh, next time you're playing your British game on your Japanese console perhaps you might consider that there are some foreign influences that aren't entirely evil.
I'm just glad that not every American is as ill-informed, naive and racist as you've obviously shown yourself to be.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
This is an american page right??? Are you sure? Cause it seems to me that a lot of Australian content is getting on this page. This is all fine and dandy, most of these stories are good and all. I just have to ask, why is so much shit going down in Australia.