[Mick Mueck]

Actually, the naked slaves part doesn’t bother me in the slightest. It’s the ~5 minutes of graphic killings and beatings that I’m sure got this film an R rating. Either way, we’re flogging a dead horse. Everybody here is telling me I’m engaging in criminal activity. I’m sure it won’t help in the slightest to repeat that my intentions are specific to a single school project, for personal use only, and that I buy all my software (even Microsoft stuff which I *really* hate) and movies (over 600 so far). Heck, I just purchased the mpeg2 component for QuickTime sight unseen because I thought it might help out here – but it doesn’t because it won’t handle the audio. I could have purchased the movie again for that money, but that’s not the point.

I appreciate the fine line between piracy and fair personal use. No doubt this is an endless argument and this thread is only going to serve to soak up unnecessary bandwidth. I still think the right thing to do is to close down this thread. Can somebody do this please? This is my last posting on this particular topic. No sour grapes here, I have found this forum to be an exceptional resource in the past and hope to continue picking your brains in the future 🙂

[Mick Mueck]

OK, I guess I saw this coming. Maybe if there’s a moderator around then he/she can lock down this thread. I was just exploring a different way to let a couple 14 year olds watch this R-rated movie instead of having their teacher showing them the full version at school. Looks like I’ll have to revert to the old fashioned way of standing by with my finger on the fast forward button. Hopefully nobody here has ever recorded something on their vcr for personal use…