My dad got it for me off of Amazon a few years ago and immediately afterwards they put out a much nicer digipak type off case. One that I've always been bummed about though is Oliver Stone's JFK. I even (foolishly) bought Bonnie & Clyde recently because it was on sale for only a few bucks. We have hundreds of discs between us so of course some of them are old New Line or Warner snappers. ![]() I started buying in 2000, my fiancee a year or two before that. With most of them, that was the only choice I had. It's possible that I'll just scan my remaining snappers and create custom covers eventually, but for now I think Disc Sox will be my "snapper solution". Other titles I'm anxiously awaiting SEs or keepcase versions of, but in the meantime I just store them separately from my other DVDs, which is a practice that did come out of how annoying it was to have them among keepcases. ![]() Unfortunately, my affinity for original key art has meant that a few snappers are destined to stay with me for quite a while, like the BATMAN movies, because I don't really like not having the logo artwork on the new covers. plus of course all the ones where the studio (mostly New Line) finally decided to re-release titles in keepcases. Two Weeks Notice (Hollywood Video pre-viewed) Looney Tunes: Back In Action (Hollywood Video pre-viewed) In the past, I've avoided the following snappers, and am very happy I did: That said, I always try to make sure the movie's really not available in any other packaging before plunking down money for a snapper. It is optional to us consumers to buy DVDs if we want the title(s) (regardless of the case they're originally in) or we don't.I agree 100%. Basically, the consumer does not have a choice anyway, whether the DVD has been manufactured with a jewel, amaray, tin, or snapper case. “It is difficult to say how a court would rule on this question, but it does create a specter of monetary liability for hosting providers, even if they otherwise comply with the ‘notice-and-takedown’ procedures required by the DMCA safe harbors,” von Lohmann said.I don't purchase DVDs for the type of case they're packaged in, I purchase DVDs for the movie, and it's contents on the disc(s). This week’s rebellion of Internet users poses a different set of facts that may not fall under the 2000 legal precedent, EFF senior attorney Fred von Lohmann said in a blog posting this week. The case involved an online magazine that published a computer program that unlocked DVD encryption codes. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for free speech on the Web, notes the AACS’s claims that hosting the key on a Web site violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act were upheld by federal courts in 2000. Studios have already begun shipping high-definition discs that cannot be copied using the posted key, he said. Michael Ayers, chairman of the AACS business group, said the consortium has “received some encouraging cooperation from a number of the parties we have dealt with.” He said the AACS’s enforcement efforts are aimed only at copyright circumvention tools and not at “valuable public discourse” on whether digital files should be protected at all. One Web site,, began pulling down the files after receiving a letter from AACS, but reversed itself after users inundated it with criticism and files containing the offending string of 32 digits and letters. because how are they going to sue every blogger and everyone who has access to the code?” said Richard Neff, an intellectual property attorney at Greenberg Glusker in Los Angeles. “It’s sort of a violation without a satisfying remedy from the standpoint of the companies and the consortium. Since then, a consortium of movie studios, known as the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Authority, have been waging a quiet war, mostly by sending cease-and-desist letters to various Web sites.īut although the law backs the movie studios, legal experts said the consortium will have little success trying to stop the dissemination of the critical code, which is already being both set to music and printed on T-shirts. ![]() ![]() In February, a hacker obtained a decryption key that enables copying of protected HD-DVD and Blu Ray movies and posted it on the Internet. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood studios may find it impossible to squash a Web-based movement to facilitate the illegal copying of high-definition DVDs, even though the law is on their side, because the information has already been distributed so widely.
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