And they wonder why people pirate....

I got my DVDs of the 1986 TV series Starman (which is my First Fandom). Now, for some reason, Sony's DVD-Rs - this is the video equivalent of Print-on-Demand - don't want to play nicely with Superdrives/Mac OS X Lion. (I suspect it's partially a problem with the Superdrive itself, because it does the same thing in Windows with the same drive; I got it to work with the external drive I keep around in Windows.) This is, for once, Not Sony's Fault.

I don't have a problem with paying money for readily-available items in formats I can use. I prefer them to be portable and transferable, but I'm willing to put up with a lot for certain things. Starman is one of them.

Apparently, they feel that the nice honest people need to see not only the standard red-screen FBI warning (also in French on a second screen), but two screens about how piracy is theft (for a grand total of four). These are not skippable, and they derail my enjoyment of the product. I don't know why in the freaking hell they think these things are effective nowadays.

News to the studios and that portion of the Federal Government: You're not turning me into a money-paying consumer by these things. Instead, I want to pirate more, because at least the things I get play on pretty much anything. Free is a bonus, but I want my videos on whatever device I can load them on and without the damn freaking stupid warnings.

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Dear self:

The remixes are fine. They are not going to sneak off and get too drunk at the nearest bar. They are not going to arrive at the opening of the archive with hangovers and expose themselves to random readers.

They are coherent, they are nice stories, and I need to be in bed soon.

Yours,
me