Real Life DRM Problems: Atlantis the Lost Empire DVD
Most of the time I just want to casually watch a movie. I don’t need to own every DVD I have a passing interest in. I even have trouble watching movies I really love more than once. Back in 2001, I was browsing the Michigan Ave Borders in Chicago and found the Atlantis the Lost Empire Illustrated Script. I discovered after a few pages that one of my favorite comic book artists, Mike Mignola, designed all the characters and mecha. Later, in Hollywood Video I rented the non-special edition DVD. When I watched the disc through my home theater set up, I was disappointed that its Dolby Digital soundtrack was broken.
I’ve run into issues that have frustrated me (Polar Express and it’s corruption near the end) and I’ve wished that could could easily just fix it. But the Distributors purposely have DVDs set up so that you can’t just fix things like that. And even ripping a movie apart to fix it is a felony. Here is one person who wasted hours fixing a movie just so he could get his $4 worth (rental fee).
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