Re: [tlug] Pretending to be outside Japan?

[David Smith-Uchida <dave@example.com>]

> I remember an amusing cartoon about the difference between pirated and
> legally rented media.  This was back when Blockbuster was still a thing,
> but the premise was that first one has to sit through an FBI warning, then
> ads that can't be skipped and it's almost 5-10 minutes before one can
> actually watch the movie.  In contrast, download a pirated version and
> voila, there's the movie.


If the movie publishers had any sense they'd publish a "Deluxe" edition that doesn't make you sit through the noise and charge a couple of dollars extra for it.  It does irk me when my DVD player tells me that I can't fast forward or go to the menu.

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