BREAKING NEWS: An uncrackable dvd/cd copy protection scheme DOES exist

[axelfox]

Originally posted by: silverpig
What the hell is a rant?

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[KBTuning]

a shaped C4 charge will only pull 1 layer of the wrap off 🙁

 

[ElFenix]

so true

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: NTB
lol 😛

Whoever designed this packaging must be the same person who designed the heat-sealed packaging that *everything* seems to come in now - you know, the stuff you can't get into without completely destroying the packaging, which means you may well be SOL if you have to return whatever it was. After all, the stores want it in "like new" condition 🙂

Nate

that's why i always have super sharp Xacto knives . . . opens any plastic with ease unless you are clumsy [stock up on bandages].

 

[Eeezee]

I don't think anyone enjoys they way things are wrapped, ESPECIALLY the cases for DVDs. There are too many ways to permanently ruin something that you freshly purchased.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: NTB
lol 😛

Whoever designed this packaging must be the same person who designed the heat-sealed packaging that *everything* seems to come in now - you know, the stuff you can't get into without completely destroying the packaging, which means you may well be SOL if you have to return whatever it was. After all, the stores want it in "like new" condition 🙂

Nate

that's why i always have super sharp Xacto knives . . . opens any plastic with ease unless you are clumsy [stock up on bandages].

Xacto knives? Fvck that, COMBAT KNIFEEEEEE

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: NTB
lol 😛

Whoever designed this packaging must be the same person who designed the heat-sealed packaging that *everything* seems to come in now - you know, the stuff you can't get into without completely destroying the packaging, which means you may well be SOL if you have to return whatever it was. After all, the stores want it in "like new" condition 🙂

Nate

that's why i always have super sharp Xacto knives . . . opens any plastic with ease unless you are clumsy [stock up on bandages].

Xacto knives? Fvck that, COMBAT KNIFEEEEEE

Fine . . . if you don't care about the package or its contents 😉



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[compnovice]

9/10

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[ktehmok]

You missed the part where you cut your hand on the newly ripped open blister package. Blood goes great with a family get together.

Next on the list is the little plastic covered wire thats attached at 500 points to every toy you have to open, for your kid who's dancing around like a crack addict wanting to play with it.... I started bringing side-cutting pliers to every Christmas get together. And a Gerber serrated knife to defeat the blister packages.

And don't get me started on the moron who decided to weave every individual strand of Barbie's hair into the back of the box.

 

[talyn00]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: daveymark

Originally posted by: NuclearNed

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else find NuclearNed's rants always enjoyable? I do. 😉

That's the best Christmas gift you could have given me. Honestly, thank you.

I guess a bj is out of the question then 🙁

Just imagine if the condom industry used the same technologies...

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[RossMAN]

8/10

I always enjoy reading your rants, thank you for sharing 🙂

Merry Christmas.

 

[bleeb]

PWNED!

 

[yukichigai]

Outer layer: Wide dremel cutting tool.
Saran wrap: narrow diamater dremel cutting tool.
Center doohickey: angled dremel grinding tool at low RPM.

Dremels fix everything. :thumbsup:

 

[Lurknomore]

I have to agree-plastic packaging nowadays is just insane.
Try opening a package of memory just using your hands without damaging the goods.:|

 

[triska]

YOU KNOW WHAT GRINDS MY GEARS!? ...
-p.g.

lol

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Lurknomore
I have to agree-plastic packaging nowadays is just insane.
Try opening a package of memory just using your hands without damaging the goods.:|

that's what tools are for . . .

we . . . most of us . . . are not apes. 😉
[or we'd use our teeth]








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[Anghang]

Originally posted by: ktehmok
You missed the part where you cut your hand on the newly ripped open blister package.

Next on the list is the little plastic covered wire thats attached at 500 points to every toy you have to open

i can relate...they're always such a pain to deal with...i once had to reinsert all the wires and tie the toy back down in order to sell it...and yup, there were some extra wires in the end...haha...

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
We had our Christmas celebration last night because we are going on vacation starting today. My wife gave me a couple of DVDs, and I gave her a cd. I wanted to play around with my new toys, and thats when I discovered it. Apparently it is now impossible to copy newer dvds. By the same token, its also impossible to play them. What the crap am I talking about, you ask?

I'm talking about the 50 layers of security tape that holds a dvd case closed tighter that a nun's womanhood. Then just for an added layer of protection, the entire mess is shrink wrapped with that clear crap that NASA developed to withstand every tool and cosmic force known to man. Should by some divine miracle you actually manage to find a way around this copy protection scheme, the recording industry has one more ugly little surprise lying in wait: you still have to find a way to get the disk off that little knobby thing without cracking the disk into a zillion pieces.

If the record industry is so hard up for money, here's what I propose. I would gladly pay a couple of extra bucks at the store to get an official record company representative to open dvds for me. I'll be happy to let them in on the "fun".

Thats all.

Good solid rant. 8/10. More humor would have resulted in a perfect score. 😀

 

[RagingBITCH]

You're a n00b. Blister packs suck. DVD wrappers aren't bad at all. At the worst? Get a knife and just slit it, worry about the lame seal later.

 

[rocadelpunk]

Originally posted by: triska
YOU KNOW WHAT GRINDS MY GEARS!? ...
-p.g.

lol

you america

fvck you!

 

[ABErickson]

Originally posted by: NTB
lol 😛

Whoever designed this packaging must be the same person who designed the heat-sealed packaging that *everything* seems to come in now - you know, the stuff you can't get into without completely destroying the packaging, which means you may well be SOL if you have to return whatever it was. After all, the stores want it in "like new" condition 🙂

Nate

They make 'em that way so you can't easily open it in the store and steal the contents. It's no accident they're tough to get open.

 

[dman]

I don't know what's worse, the above or the twisty-ties-taped-down-in-50-billion-places on kids toys. My daughter got a CareBears ShareBear storytime doll (reads stories) and seriously had about 25 twisty ties all individually taped down in the box, I gave up on counting them there were so many.

I keep a set of wiresnips (For the twisty ties) and a box cutter (for the tape/saranwrap/etc) in my tool box and was able to get it de-packaged in about 30 minutes. Well it seemed to take that long.

Box cutter works well for the DVD stuff too, but have to be careful not to ruin the packaging.

 

[Rebasxer]

I got a new flash drive that came in that heatsealed clamshell packaging, I ended up cutting off the top half of the instructions because every other place I cut it wouldn't open it, those bastards!

 

[Rastus]

The ironic part of DVD packaging is that 13 year old glue sniffing teenagers can still get the DVD out with one hand in less than ten seconds in the store while being watched closely by the employees and on camera without being detected.