DVD piracy warning…

So I’m watching a DVD and after each episode we get the piracy boilerplate. To wit:

“The copyright license proprietor has licensed this film (including its soundtrack) comprised in this video device for home use only. All other rights are reserved. The definition of home use excludes the use of this video device at locations such as Clubs, Coaches, Hospitals, Hotels, Oil Rigs, Prisons and Schools. Any unauthorised copying, editing, exhibition, renting, exchanging, hiring, lending, public performance diffusion and/or broadcast of this video device or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and any such action establishes liability for a civil action and may give rise to criminal prosecution.”

I’m assuming “coaches” means commercial buses, like Greyhound. But…

Oil rigs?!

Really, c’mon, now. All those other things potentially could reach millions or at least hundreds of thousands of people over time. But oil rigs?! There’s got to be a story there, but I can’t imagine what is it.

Oil rigs.

Hmm, might be time to break out The Intruder Within.

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wrieder66

My guess would be that an oil rig is considered something of a semi-private location (would anti-smoking regulations apply to a six-month billeted room on an oil-rig, as if it were a workplace… taking the whole explosive gas aspect out of the question) Which would make the better question – why don’t they include the International Space Station and Antarctic Science Stations in the list? That’d make the warning more fun to read.
Toby Clark

Heh, yeah, I’ve been noticing and wondering about that one for years.
Cullen Waters

I thought everyone knew the BP spill was caused by pirated DVDs.
Gamera977

Hope they don’t run that horrible Steven Stegal film, ‘On Deadly Ground’ I think it was that Ken reviewed where he blew up the oil rig and probably polluted half of Alaska.
bgbear_rnh

There is at least 1500 oil platforms in the world. Maybe only a handful of service company owns the concessions on platforms and this is some sort of protectionism.
Rock Baker

I’ve seen that for years. But would there really be a difference between a screening on an oil rig, a school, a hotel, or a hospital? And what about military bases? Airplanes? Cruise ships? I’d be curious to know exactly what criteria they used to draw their lines.
Eric Hinkle

“I’d be curious to know exactly what criteria they used to draw their lines.”

How much money the owner gets paid for the right to show the DVD? Just guessing here.
Rock Baker

I just can’t see there being a huge difference in that respect to oil rigs, hospitals, military bases, etc.
Eric Hinkle

The only thing I can say about hospital programming is that a friend of mine recently spent a day in care and saw several SyFy original movies in a row, and was left stunned at how they had the nerve to show movies this awful to seriously ill people.
Ken_Begg

Hey, the longer you’re sick, the more money they make.
Eric Hinkle

Sees counterproductive. Those films might have the patients jumping out of the windows to get away.
Gamera977

Yeah, though if it’s all I had for ‘entertainment’ back when I was in the hospital I think I’d have given up hope and croaked.
Eric Hinkle

Actually, from what my friend told me, the drugs they had him on left him kinda messed up for a brief while, to the point where he remembers having a conversation with one or two of the characters from one of the moves he saw. Said it was an amazing discussion, even if he can’t remember any of it. I told him to tell me what that stuff was so I can get some for the next time I watch a movie with Kumi Mizuno of Toho/Godzilla fame in it.
stig781

And that t was Trans Ocean, not BP.
Cullen Waters

Not sure what you’re trying to get at here. Then again, rereading what I wrote, I’m not sure what my point was, either.