No choice.

When DVD's first came out, I remember saying to hubby that we would be forced to watch things by the DVD producers, and how right I was. In the old days of VHS tapes (remember those?) we could fast forward through the boring bits, but now no more. How often have you pressed the skip / fast forward button on the DVD remote only to be told that 'operation prohibited by disc', usually the legal stuff, telling you that it is illegal in most most of the know world to make unauthorised copies.


I was watching an old DVD today (Monsters' Ball if you are interested) and you get the legal stuff scrolling up the screen. No one reads it. If you are like me you resort to angrily pressing the fast forward button, or DVD menu button, before swearing at the TV when you get the dreaded message 'operation prohibited by disc'. More modern discs show you a little film with a jazzy soundtrack, telling you that you wouldn't steal and handbag, or a car, so why steal a movie.


Of course you would if you thought you wouldn't get caught. Most of us know right from wrong, and it is the fear of getting caught and the possible punishments that you prevent you from breaking the law!!!