Playing DVDs on Windows and *nix

[Christopher Browne]

On 12/11/05, Zbigniew Koziol <zkoziol-Zd07PnzKK1IAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Meng Cheah wrote:
> > James Knott wrote:
> >
> >> My question is why is the video store selling or renting DVD-R to
> >> customers?  Sounds to me like it might be a pirate copy.
> >
> >
> > That said, in my experience pirated movies are sold more blatantly in
> > Canada than some countries in Asia and I'm not trolling :-)
>
> I do not know if it is more or less in Canada. I can only confirm that
> there is a huge market here for illegal movies, both on tape and DVD.
> And I even know which mostly nationality runs it. They are usually
> untochable. The media will cry about copyrights but the media is run
> mostly by them as well. The police will confiscate illegal copies but
> not from them. Well... thats Canada.

If you are thinking of a nationality that might be associated with
Pacific Mall, then perhaps you're wrong...  There was a big
raid/seizure a couple of weeks ago.

<http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t402875.html>

If you look at a country that has over a billion people and probably
dozens if not hundreds of subcultures, the notion that anything other
than some fairly vague physical characteristics can be applied to all
of them is just sheer silliness.

At the very least, you have the two contradictory extremes of:
 a) Students willing to die in protests;
 b) Government officials prepared to order tanks driven over their people.

Neither of those particular categories are terribly much likely to
apply to emigrants to Canada.
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