Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 21:29:53 -0700
Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 9/2/2013 6:13 PM, deadalnix wrote:
> > Unless the industry is showing signs of understanding, I'm done
> > with theses stuffs. When amateurs can do better for free, you are
> > not providing any service, you are just scamming your customers.
> 
> I don't know about scamming, but I find the business practice of
> ignoring people who want to throw money at you to be utterly baffling.
> 
> For example, I want to watch Forbrydelsen. It's only available as
> Region 2 DVDs. I have several dvd/bluray players, none will play it.
> What the hell? It's 6 years old. Who is making money off of me not
> being able to watch it?
> 
> (Amazon sez: "It won't play on standard DVD/Blu-ray players sold in
> the United States.")
> 
> I'm unimpressed.

Totally agree. The suits in the media sectors are fucking idiots and
need to be jailed for *everyone's* good.

Not that we should need to, but luckily there are ways to exercise
our fair use rights (well, at least with movies anyway):

http://www.dvddecrypter.org.uk/

And if it's a DVD9 video, then also: 

http://www.dvdshrink.org/

As a bonus they'll also get rid of all that PUO bullshit.

Now if only there were similarly easy equivalents to kill the
regions, unskippable bullshit and non-backupability (and I *do*
literally mean actual "backup") in videogames...Seriously though, as
horrible as RIAA/MPAA are in terms of consumer rights the videogame (and
mobile apps, too) world is far worse.