Pirated vs. paying customers - this is what you get with a DVD(geek.com)
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Pirated vs. paying customers - this is what you get with a DVD
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This is why I rip my (rended Netflix) DVD's before watching them.
I know it's not too polite to talk about flagging posts here, but come on, this is a no-content jpg on the front page of HN? Repeating a years old argument? That I saw on reddit a week or two ago?
Please guys, lets not do this to another good community.
Please guys, lets not do this to another good community.
Then flag it? I only submitted it because of the other piracy post, but it's not like my heart is very much attached to it. I only saw it on Twitter yesterday (and did not submit at first), not a year ago on Reddit.
Although I admit, I also tend to swear when trying to watch a DVD.
Another interesting experience is trying to explain a DVD player to your granny.
It's maddening that they spent lots of money on creating fancy menus that only make usability worse. Every DVD has a different menu, so there is no way to explain how to use it in a consistent way. Unless the DVD player is good enough to somehow get around it reliably.
Although I admit, I also tend to swear when trying to watch a DVD.
Another interesting experience is trying to explain a DVD player to your granny.
It's maddening that they spent lots of money on creating fancy menus that only make usability worse. Every DVD has a different menu, so there is no way to explain how to use it in a consistent way. Unless the DVD player is good enough to somehow get around it reliably.
My granny is afraid to watch the Inspector Wexford (like Murder She Wrote without the sex and violence) DVD from the library
A BBC dective (none) drama aimed at little old ladies that shows a "you are a criminal funding terrorists and drug dealers" commercial after each episode. She thinks the DVD player knows about something she has done!
It also slightly confuses me how DVD piracy 'funds' drug dealing - I wouldn't have thought that drug dealing was a cost center?
A BBC dective (none) drama aimed at little old ladies that shows a "you are a criminal funding terrorists and drug dealers" commercial after each episode. She thinks the DVD player knows about something she has done!
It also slightly confuses me how DVD piracy 'funds' drug dealing - I wouldn't have thought that drug dealing was a cost center?
Just flag it and then go to the new page and vote up some content you deem more worthy. Or better yet, submit some.
I somewhat disagree. While this has been going around an awful lot, lately, I would not call it zero content. It doesn't have much text, but it makes its point quite succinctly. In terms of user experience, the user is penalized for taking the legal route. Describing this in text would likely be less effective (depending in part on one's writing skills) and take significantly longer to read and process.
At the same time, there has been more and more "Reddit" ("Digg", etc.) content showing up lately on HN. For me, the quality of this item rises somewhat above that, and its brevity does not cost me much time. Also, some people here have simply given up on the other sites due to the low signal to noise ratio. When an item contributes enough to thought and conversation, its repetition here may be appropriate.
To repeat myself, I find this graphic a cogent, concise comment on how the entrenched IP industry shoots itself (and its users) in the foot in terms of poor -- I might almost say sabotaged -- user experience. It might benefit from being cited in its original context (depending on the nature of that context) instead of as an isolated graphic or in some piece of blogspam (which the poster has avoided).
At the same time, there has been more and more "Reddit" ("Digg", etc.) content showing up lately on HN. For me, the quality of this item rises somewhat above that, and its brevity does not cost me much time. Also, some people here have simply given up on the other sites due to the low signal to noise ratio. When an item contributes enough to thought and conversation, its repetition here may be appropriate.
To repeat myself, I find this graphic a cogent, concise comment on how the entrenched IP industry shoots itself (and its users) in the foot in terms of poor -- I might almost say sabotaged -- user experience. It might benefit from being cited in its original context (depending on the nature of that context) instead of as an isolated graphic or in some piece of blogspam (which the poster has avoided).
Yes. (Though the graphic could have been a web-site instead, that allowed copy-and-paste and screenreader-acces for the blind.)
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