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Image via CrunchBaseImagine sitting down with your kids, a bag of popcorn, and a great night in to watch sleeping beauty, only to spend the next 30 minutes going through updates, and trying to read through a 57 page EULA to access the BD-Live content and a 63 page privacy policy. So much for a fun Friday night with the kids and a great movie at home, all of this taken over by an incomprehensible EULA and Privacy policy. Whatever happened to just sitting back and watching a movie?

Note to Disney – the kids just wanted to watch the movie. They do not care about EULA, they do not care about updates, they do not care about privacy, and they just wanted to watch the movie. Sounds simple on the surface, not so easy in reality.

This is why DVD’s rock, there is very little of this kind of stuff, (although I am sure that Disney worked out some way to do the same thing on the DVD) and you can at least fast forward through the 15 minutes of commercials they keep on packing onto the front end of a DVD and disallowing many of the skipping controls that people will use on the remote.

BoingBoing and Format War Central are reporting on others who just wanted to have a nice night in with the kids, and finding out that the level of frustration with the system is also out of control. The pictures at Format War are enough to make you laugh out loud, if it was not so painful to live through.

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