The Monkey Cage does not endorse political parties, programs, candidates etc. I nonetheless suspect that John Scalzi’s proposal is one that everyone could get behind.
I’m generally not one for overbearing government regulation in entertainment, but if someone were to introduce legislation requiring home entertainment companies to have a “just play the damn movie” button at the start of every DVD, Blu-Ray or any other future movie-playing technology, I would call my Senators and representative every fifteen minutes until they voted “yes” on that bill. That is all.
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I’m not sure about Blu-Ray, but on almost every DVD player I’ve seen, if you put in the disc, then hit STOP, STOP, PLAY, your disc should jump right to the start of the movie, skipping the FBI warning, trailers, even the menu screen.
When I am God-Emperor of America, dvds and bds will be required to go straight to either the movie itself or the top menu, notices that commentaries are not the opinions of the movie company will be banned, and showing anything on television in any aspect ratio other than that in which it was originally presented will be punishable by punishment. Especially stretch-o-vision.
Also there will be re-education camps, to that’s bad. But there will be frogurt, so that’s good.
Yay! Frogurt!
The frogurt is cursed.
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