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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."
go fuck your king you silly queen
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charlton heston is more of a man than yo
Mod me as a troll if you like but the way I see it is: Duh, of course it's a film!
Anyone who argues that a dvd (In this case, thatt's Digital VIDEO disc, not 'Versitile') is software more than it is film needs to reply to this and explain why.
A DVD contains ZERO in the way of executable code--zero, Zilch, NONE!
The word software came from the word hardware, but with the adaptation being that there was no hard-wired functionality. But what does the -ware in softWARE and hardWARE mean? In this case, functionality.
Graphics hardware: Stuff that makes pretty pictures, real fast.
Sound hardware: Stuff that converts binary audio data to analog, along with a lot of other stuff.
Linux: Software that runs a computer.
A DVD contains pure media. No functionality. It requires a seperate piece of hardware/software just to be used!
They are media, and as such they should be governed by the laws that cover media.
Oh, and by the way... the DVD Menu's? Those aren't executable. Those are A collection of images with a few links. They are not a program (To be that, they would have to have the capability of iteration, which they do not.)
my favourite dvd's are the ones with the god damned jewish ministers pissing on asian whores.
the best part is when the asian whore then shits on the jew.
nothing better than shitting on a jew...
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charlton heston is more of a man than yo
That's also at the store within walking distance.
for the people I know in Australia the shop (any shop!) is at least 3 hours walk away!
So by the time you've walked to the shop and back that's 6 hours gone, watch the movie, bring it back, wow nearly 14 hours to watch a movie!
all made in places far far away from Down like Taiwan, China, Malasia!
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I believe that all the governments of the entire world shall rule that region coding, encryption, and the other "digital rights denial" technologies in DVDs are illegal, and rule that not only must they be banned, but that consumers should be encouraged to make copies of DVDs and distribute them. There would be a massive, multitrillion dollar marketing campaign to get people to copy and distribute DVDs. In fact, every DVD you buy should cost one cent, and it should come with 1000 blank recordable DVDs. DVD players would come equipped with a DVD copier which would simultaeously make 10 exact digital duplicates of a DVD in one minute. Each copy made by a consumer would allow him to claim a $1,000 tax deduction. And if you make 10,000 or more total copies of DVDs in a year, you automatically don't pay taxes, and get all your taxes refunded for the past 10 years, or 100,000 dollars, whichever is greater. To cover for this, the entertainment industry would repay the government all that money, with interest, penalties, and interest on the penalties. Finally, these laws would apply to music as well.