Video Asylum

Posted by Audiophilander (A) on February 19, 2009 at 17:41:59

In Reply to: RE: Ah, I see you're cheerleading for a new team. Did SONY not pay enough? posted by Jazz Inmate on February 19, 2009 at 11:33:47

>>> "...all three of you must have a guilty conscience if your first thoughts ran to that." <<<

That's a nice heaping pile of you-know-what. You are the sad clown who keeps beating his drum about "not following the rules" like some whiny brat upset that his fellow school-mates are enjoying something his parents won't allow.

>>> "If you're not in the region, you should only be able to access intellectual property, including digitally encoded movies, from the company that has legal distribution rights." <<<

Baloney! First of all, let's get one thing out of the way right now: intellectual 'anything' is above your pay grade. That said, as long as all party's receive the proper compensation for an item released in a free market economy for public consumption there is no 'intellectual' right of limit access of who sees it in which region. Everything else moves down the slippery-slope of censorship.

>>> "Yes, but in many cases that studio only has rights for distribution in a certain region--not where you live." <<<

That's the flimsiest argument fro region restricting I've ever read. If the distributor has no intention of marketing something outside of a given region because of it's limited mass market appeal then how are the intellectual property rights compromised if a consumer imports it? If the product isn't purchased then everyone along the chain suffers to a greater or lesser degree from the lost sales!

>>> "All formats need to have rules that ensure enough openness..." <<<

Those so-called rules are what limits BD acceptance. What you are referring to isn't openness, in fact, it's anathema (to openness)!

Well, I've taken enough time debunking your tomfoolery. It would be child's play dissecting the remainder of your post, but I have no interest in kicking more sand in your face from the sandbox your family cat uses. The issues are clear: you have one perspective, and it appears to be the minority POV. You may not have directly called us all bootleggers and pirates, but you've turned cart-wheels around here implying that you've taken the high-road while the rest of us might as well be highwaymen. Here's a clue: the road you're on and Oppo appears to be headed down is a dead-end.

AuPh