-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Jurassic Park and Lost World DVD's play an ad for Universal DVD titles when you start the movie, and while it is playing, you can't chapter skip, fast forward, or rewind. I have some DVD's that do similar things when the disc is first put in the player. Fortunately, most DVD's don't have this annoying "feature". - -----Original Message----- From: Trei, Peter [mailto:ptrei@rsasecurity.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 12:29 PM To: 'Tim May' Cc: 'cypherpunks@lne.com' Subject: RE: Advertisements on Web Pages
Tim May[SMTP:tcmay@got.net] wrote
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Yes, we have heard here (or at a physical meeting, I forget which). I don't buy many DVDs, but this was discussed. Apparently the trailers and ads cannot be fast-forwarded through...something built into the DVD spec which allows this.
So an ad-buster which "circumvented" this would violate the DMCA, presumably. --Tim May
Commercial VHS tapes have had trailers (and occasionally ads) at the start for several years, but they can be zapped with FF. Over 20-30 DVDs I've seen none *forced* you to watch the trailers - they have always been part of the 'extra features' stuff off the main menu. OTOH, they all *do* force you to sit through the FBI and Interpol warnings for about 15 seconds. BTW: my VCR has a feature that allows it to automatically FF through ads. It works about 90% of the time, and is a very nice thing to have. Peter Trei -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBO3HjrRj6oMyeDxZoEQIQ+ACfQuhAOY+eNoFZEJqg3LVV0CxlYAIAmgMK vzdnU3z1HJvTJXvtd5v6crhv =fO4t -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----