FREE DVD: Song of the South

[Doramius]

Answer this and I will send the FIRST person with the correct answer a copy of the Song of the South DVD in a case with the cover artwork at no cost to you. Good Luck. Due to the ease of this puzzle, no hints can be given. Sorry.



I'll give it 14 days from the date this was posted. If by then it has not been figured out, I will post the key and no DVD will be sent out.


NOTE: Unless there is a huge uprising of people who really want the DVD and are trying to figure it out, then I won't post the key and those of you who are suffering will just have to wait to find out what it says. :P

EDIT: this is for the mods and legal reasons. I guess I'll have to add this to anything I offer.

The section of American copyright law known as “The Berne Act” states: films unreleased in the United States, including original version of films altered and/or edited for release in the United State, are not protected by American copyright; thus they are considered public domain.

[Goolump]

Uncle Remus?

[presto]

Darn! I decoded it and found that Goolump posted the correct answer. I'll just say that it is a very old code and sort of involves a popular childrens game.

[Doramius]

Yeah, but it was a simple DVD for a simple Puzzle. He got it right. Try the next one. It should be a little more difficult to figure out.

[flaninacupboard]

so are you going to enlighten the rest of us?

[adam]

It translates to "What is the name of the storyteller in the movie" and he's referring to the Song of the South. The character was named Uncle Remus.

I figured it out right after Goolump posted too, only I didn't bitch about it

Doramius... Is there an actual rhyme or reason to the code? presto's post makes me think there might be. I just decoded it using trial and error. The fact that those three words were "the" were pretty obvious, for example.

[Doramius]

Sure. Make 4 TIC-TAC-TOE boards in a row(IE: ####). Starting at the top left of the first one, put the letter A. Put B in the upper middle. Put C in the Upper right. do the same in the middle row with D,E,F. and Follow with G,H,I on the bottom. The next board you put a dot over the top. and follow as previously with letters J-R. The third board will have a - over the top of it and will have the letters S-Z and the number 0 will be in the bottom right. the fourth board will have a / over the top and be numbers 1-9. You can even make boards for punctuation.


EDIT: I knew people would figure it out through trial and error too, which is why I didn't offer any hints. The other one should be a little more difficult.

[flaninacupboard]

tic-tac-toe? you mean noughts and crosses, right?

[Doramius]

tic-tac-toe? you mean noughts and crosses, right?

It could be called nuts and cunts. It's still the same board.

[flaninacupboard]

tic-tac-toe? you mean noughts and crosses, right?

It could be called nuts and cunts. It's still the same board.

Someone's a little tetchy tonight!

[presto]

So Flanininacup make an innocent comment pointing out that Tic Tac Toe is called Nought and Crosses in England where he is and Doramious misunderstands and resorts to profanity.

OR

Flanininacup makes a rude attempt to correct Doramious's terminology and Doramious makes a light hearted adult joke in return.

OR

Flanininacup and Doramious share a similiar sense of humor and Presto sees a conflict where there is none.

It's so hard to tell.

[flaninacupboard]

Search me! i just wanted to check it's the same game. Mr Moody Pants just went off on one.....

[freestyler]

When was Song of the South ever released on DVD? Is this a conversion of yours from Laserdisc or VHS?

[Faustus]

I have a VHS conversion that I made, but the video quality is very very poor.

[Doramius]

I was just being silly. Flan's a good guy. In fact, He's named in a good nursery rhyme I had redone that I know he's proud of.

As far as Song of the South. It is a FULL and HIGH QUALITY transfer from Laser Disc. It is very impressive as the menus and special features are still kept and work. When Goolump gets it, he'll have to let you know how good of a disc it is. No color fading or sound loss. Of course it's original sound was mono, but again, it's very impressive.

[flaninacupboard]

*cough. cough. advertising. cough*

[adam]

Is this DVD a backup of your laserdisk? The fact that you are offering a second version of this movie in another thread really makes me think so. If this is the case, then what the hell are you thinking? Giving away backups is such an obvious violation of copyright law and this site's rules.

These puzzle threads are fun and all, but its not worth getting this site shut down over. If you want to give away your laserdisks and DVDs, fine. But if you are going to pass out bootlegs then you will have to do it somewhere else.

[Capmaster]

I had read "copy" in his first post as meaning the same as "I'm going to Hastings to pick up a copy of LOTR".

Say it isn't warez, Doramius

[Doramius]

I had read "copy" in his first post as meaning the same as "I'm going to Hastings to pick up a copy of LOTR".

Say it isn't warez, Doramius

It's not. Check my Edits.

[ViRaL1]

Song of the south wasn't released in the US?

[Rookie64]

Song of the south wasn't released in the US?

In 1946...and played up til the mid '70s in the U.S.



Disney didn't want to offend people due to it's racial content, so they decided to discontinue future releases in the U.S.


They still own all rights to the film though.

It's been released on video in other counties - never released on DVD though.

[Doramius]

Song of the south wasn't released in the US?

Disney won't release the DVD ever due to the fact that they feel there are metaphores in the stories that may offend a certain minority. It was released on VHS in Canada and some stores imported it for sale in the 80's. It was released on LaserDisc in Japan in the late 80's and then it was pulled from any release with a statement by Disney saying they will not allow it's release from that point on.

[adam]

I responded to this in another thread. He is mistaken. That is a misquote from the Berne Act, which is an international treaty, not US law. The lack of a US release is irrellevant here. That provision is intended to prevent someone from taking a work released in one country and then releasing it as their own in another, like the US, and then trying to claim copyright protection there.

Even without a US release, I'm sure that Song of the South is still registered as a copyrighted work with the US Copyright Office. Thus, you cannot distribute copies without Disney's permission.

Capmaster, I was responding to his description of the transfer from LD to DVD. It sounded like he did it himself which is why I thought it was a bootleg.

[flaninacupboard]

Can i suggest these topics get edited to remove the names of the titles? if as you say it's unavailable then someone looking for it would see this as a big fat advert. Doramius, i'm not saying that is your intention, but that's the way it appears.

[Rookie64]

I responded to this in another thread. He is mistaken. That is a misquote from the Berne Act, which is an international treaty, not US law. The lack of a US release is irrellevant here. That provision is intended to prevent someone from taking a work released in one country and then releasing it as their own in another, like the US, and then trying to claim copyright protection there.

Even without a US release, I'm sure that Song of the South is still registered as a copyrighted work with the US Copyright Office. Thus, you cannot distribute copies without Disney's permission.

He might be quoting that from one of my old posts - 'cause I'm pretty sure I pasted that on the site somewhere...but it wasn't regarding Song Of The South


I got that quote from Video Search Of Miami -

Is Video Search an illegal pirate operation?
Definitely not! The section of American copyright law known as "The Berne Act" clearly states: films unreleased in the United States, including original version of films altered and/or edited for release in the United States, are not protected by American copyright; thus, they are considered public domain. The entire purpose of our company is to provide (otherwise unavailable) films to the serious video collector. We do not offer videos owned by American releasing companies. If a film should become available domestically we immediately stop offering it to our clients.

They don't sell any of the titles Doramius was offering.

[adam]

If you do a search for that quote you get tons of hits on various bootleg and import/export video sites. The quote appears in their disclaimers. Its a classic example of some guys's forum post somewhere getting passed on so many times that its believed to have force of law.

[Capmaster]

I responded to this in another thread. He is mistaken. That is a misquote from the Berne Act, which is an international treaty, not US law. The lack of a US release is irrellevant here. That provision is intended to prevent someone from taking a work released in one country and then releasing it as their own in another, like the US, and then trying to claim copyright protection there.

Even without a US release, I'm sure that Song of the South is still registered as a copyrighted work with the US Copyright Office. Thus, you cannot distribute copies without Disney's permission.

Capmaster, I was responding to his description of the transfer from LD to DVD. It sounded like he did it himself which is why I thought it was a bootleg.

8)

[The village idiot]

So what is being said is that it is not legal right?



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[adam]

All of these DVDs would be considered bootlegs. Regardless of when or where they have or have not been released, they are all copyrighted.

[BJ_M]

the copyright on "song of the south" ran out july 2004 ....

disney shows it as "Copyright © 1944-2004 Walt Disney Productions / The Walt Disney Company. All rights reserved.'


it is now public domain i guess - though i;m no legal expert by any means ...