I don't know about you all, but I am tired of seeing this message when I am operating my DVD player. I don't want to sit through forced copyright warnings, anti-piracy messages, overlong animations and other preamble when I just want the programme to start (it seems like the manufacturers have completely missed the point of the information age, doesn't it?). It already takes enough time for the player just to start up, for the disc drawer to open and for the disc to get up to speed.

It is also like this on media players on the computer. Is there any kind of work around so that the player responds to your commands and not those of the disc? Obviously one could expect that the way to do it would be different for each player, but is there a repository of methods for many manufacturers somewhere on the internet?

As far as i know mate there isn't, but if you find a way let me know, saying that quite a few Blurays i have go straight into the film which is a bonus.....

I feel your pain. It's ridiculous sometimes the number of silly things I have to wait through: sometimes TWO anti-piracy warnings, a 20th Century Fox logo-animation that I can't click past, and an increasingly long and superfluous animation to get to the menu (George Lucas is particularly bad on that one). The worst was a used DVD I bought that used to be a rental DVD: I couldn't click past the previews! More than five minutes of previews! I usually turn on the DVD and go pop some popcorn or something.

Burn your own and you can get past all that silliness...but, wait, I guess that's what anti-piracy warnings are for lol

You're allowed to burn backups of discs you already own, providing you don't make over a certain amount (Forgot what exactly), that you do not give/sell/lend to anyone, and that you destroy the backups when you no longer own the original.
You could use media editing computer programs to edit the screens out (On some anyway, Blu-Rays a bitch because few computers can read them; and some have protection of them)

Depending on what Media player you're using for the computer, you should be able to get a plugin that will allow you to skip those scenes. (Not on any certified site though, so you might need an up-to date firewall and do not look while young children are in the room (People to make those sites are all obsessed perverts, really!))
On a DVD player, depending on the make you can do certain things, some can have mod chips installed, or if like me you use a PS3 or something that allows different software to be installed (Providing you install Linux on it first), you can download a program to the device that can do it.
Easy, Huh?

Yeah, its not really worth the effort it takes to remove them, since they last only a few minutes.

I do hate previews on films though... damn things, luckily few have un-skipable ones.


**PSTTT! Plugins (especially mod chips) can and often do seriously play fuck around with the films.**

buying your own doesnt help, these days a standard dvd bought from the shops comes with all those warnings, messages, animations etc. Your lucky if sometimes you can skip one of these functions (most older dvds you can but they must have realised people werent getting annoyed enough so made that feature unavailable)

There is a workaround Andrew, but i don't know if it is what you want. If you explore the DVD you will see VOB files, just sort by size, and click on the big ones. If you have a decent media player that will play VOB files you will go straight to the MOVIE. Obviously this only works on your Computer but if it is bugging you then it does work.
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Actually as a second thought, if it is really bugging you enough you could always make a media PC with a video card that supports a suitable output to your TV.
It is pretty easy to rip your DVD collection to media files on a PC. But I guess it is hardly the easy solution is it

The irony of the anti-piracy warnings is that for one thing they are not needed: the very fact that I am watching it means that I have a legitimate copy of the DVD does it not? For another, because they make unwelcome demands of your time when watching a DVD, they can only serve to encourage piracy. They are also an encouragement because of the patronising message and how they equate DVD piracy to the theft of material objects, at least the ones in the UK do. (They say "you wouldn't steal a television," etc. A better analogy would be duplicating a television, as you are just duplicating a stream of data bits, and in doing so you are not depriving the person from whom you copied the data of that data.)

I had one DVD that that insisted on displaying the copyright notice in about forty different languages after it had finished playing. I wanted to access another part of the disc so I was waiting and not ejecting and re-inserting the disc because I kept thinking "surely it will stop this nonsense very shortly".

You can normally get by that Andrew by hitting the button that takes you to the disks root menu....

Normally, but in this case it did not.

I personally let the MPAA cling to their attempts to punish the legal users because they are unable to sell a public good. I have found more good independent films than big-budget ones anyways.