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Avatar Blu-Ray DRM Issues
geekd writes "Once again, DRM only hurts legit content purchasers: 'An unusual glitch has angered some Avatar Blu-ray owners. For these unlucky people, since the disc won't play on their Blu-ray players, their new Avatar DVD serves no real purpose other than to sit idly on the coffee table. ... It appears the main culprit concerning playback issues with Avatar is, ironically, the disc's DRM (digital rights management). ... Even with updated firmware, a lot of Blu-ray players weren't prepared for these security measures. Despite the security problems, bootleggers are having a field day. Pirated copies of Avatar, according to Los Angeles Times, were available as early as January.'"
Reader Murpster adds that this problem isn't specific to the Blu-ray version: "Got a regular Avatar DVD and it won't play on either of my DVD players. It will play on one computer DVD drive, if I want to watch it on a 12-inch screen."
Because when only criminals can watch movies, then ... er ... all the children will have guns. Or something.
"Lost time is not found again."
Due to restrictive policies put in place by the big evil corporation to restrict the power of people who own the material, I can't watch a movie about a big evil corporation who is restricting and stealing from a people who own the material?
Wow. I think I figured out why the natives were blue.
Yeah, 12 inch screen? Lame.
Mine is larger. Otherwise, blue pill helps.
LOL, that's pretty much what my fiancee said :-)
"Why would I want to sit there for six hours watching overweight bearded guys talk about where on the screen they clicked with a mouse?"
Living With a Nerd
Ironic, you know, like rain on your wedding day.
Nerd Rock In Progress
You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a mobile phone. You wouldn't st... DISC ERROR.
Pay and pray that they do not alter it further?
Whatever can you mean? How could you not love "Dances with Smurfs"?
My copy of Avatar works fine. I bought it in 2001 when it was called Disney's Pocahontas.
This deal's getting worse all the time.
Is she giving you that look now? Does she have a "Oh now he's going to bash Apple for some unrelated reason" look?
Whatever can you mean? How could you not love "Dances with Smurfs"?
Stop trash talking Ferngully In Space. Sure, it was Pocahontas with Mechas, but hey! Everyone loves the last alien Samurai.
You can't take the sky from me...
Hell, the people who ripped it and uploaded it may already returned it,
That's it! Finally a foolproof way to prevent nasty pirates from copying your disks and putting them on bittorrent! All the movie distributors have to do is sell disks that won't play on any device, so they can't be copied! Brilliant! ;)
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
The Avatar DVD not playing because of DRM is very much like having ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.
With the cost of ink, it would cost less to just buy a car.
And what's ironic about rain on your wedding day?
Its totally ironic if your parents arranged the marriage with a neighboring family in order to get access to their water rights in a drought-stricken land.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
till I'm blue in the face
Did you audition for Avatar?
I love stacking my barbecues in the shed at the end of summer - you can't beat a bit of grill on grill action.
Indeed. I have filed suit against my son, because his body is currently busy fabricating copies of fully half the characteristics encoded in MY genome, which I am sure all slashdotters would agree, belongs to ME. I have compiled extensive photographic evidence that he looks like me as a child, and won't even get into how he is infringing on my few areas of talent by displaying equal or even more aptitude in them.
My wife is also named in the suit for using her wiles to obtain this genetic information for him, by tricking me into allowing her to download it.