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The Social Democracy of Bootlandia hereby proposes the following resolution, repealing "DVD region removal."

The United Nations,

NOTING that Resolution #5 contains multiple errors in grammar and spelling, and is overall a resolution of very poor quality,

OBSERVING the lack of clarity and sense that such phrases as “regions in DVD’s” and “one region is all wek [sic] need” provide,

NOT BELIEVING that the apparent inability to watch DVD’s from other regions is a problem serious enough to merit a resolution,

FURTHER NOTING that most of the current United Nations member states were not in existence at the time of this resolution’s passage,

REPEALS Resolution #5, “DVD region removal.”
The resolution to be repealed states the following:
The removal of regions in DVD's that prevent a user from one region watching the DVD's form another. One region is all wek need.
A direct link to this text can be found here (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=7029580&postcount=6).

As the title states, this is a first draft. How does it look, and what changes, if any, should I make?

I am postively gonna approve this. It is retarded and I can not believe that it was even voted on. Right On, Bootlandia.

I disagree with the belief that this is not serious enough of an issue to warrant a resolution, not to mention that I think it is a ludicrous practice held by the industry (and quite frankly, ineffective in meeting their objectives). As such, I cannot support this repeal as it stands.

Wow, well I remember that when I am entering my "Ban PB and no J Sandwhich Act" That all sandwhiches with just peanut butter must add jelly or else may not be legally named a sandwhich...

It's just too trivial, How can you possibly have watching dvds next to ENDING SLAVERY!?!?!?!? I mean come on!

I supported it and just hope other delegates help put this to rest.


Come on. Let's just bring this to the floor and end it all ready :) !

Do you want to oppose this resolution simply because it is filled with error or because you want the regional difference to be back in action??

IF THE FORMER...
The UN is comprised of nations from around the world, more of whom don't have english as their first language. Hence as long as the resolution conveys its meaning, the RoJK is satisfied and understands the inability of the Author to write in good english.

IF THE LATTER...
A repeal of this resolution would mean that countries will start differentiating once again on small matters like DVDs. Not to forget the extra cost and problems to many consumers around the world. We need to be united, we are the member nations of the UNITED NATIONS. As an avid movie lover of all kinds of movies, I would not like the DVDs to be differentiated.

Hence, either way I oppose the proposal. Please think about the environment, world peace, human rights, trade, etc... and make our world a better place to live in.

Our office fully supports a repeal of this awful resolution. For the record, we would like it noted that the issue of regions in DVD's is of little concern to us, and our nation has no official policy concerning the matter.

Deputy Minister of UN Affairs
Thomas Smith

I had tried a repeal on this resolution before... it had a decent amount of support, but it obviously never got to vote. Here's what I had... it's considerably different than your current draft.


UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION #5

DVD region removal
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.

Category: Free Trade Strength: Mild Proposed by: Mercia

Description: The removal of regions in DVD's that prevent a user from one region watching the DVD's form another. One region is all wek need.

Votes For: 4,266
Votes Against: 806

Implemented: Fri Jan 17 2003


Repeal 'DVD region removal'
A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal Resolution: #5 Proposed by: Hersfold

Description: UN Resolution #5: DVD region removal (Category: Free Trade; Strength: Mild) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument: THE NATIONSTATES UNITED NATIONS, IN ASSEMBLY:

RECALLING the passing of UN Resolution #5, "DVD region removal", and it's attempt to increase international Free Trade;

TAKING NOTE of the black market of international media piracy, which involves the illegal copying, distribution, and sale of copyrighted material such as motion pictures and other forms of media recorded on Digital Video Devices (DVD's);

REMEMBERING that DVD regions are designed to prohibit the use of a DVD in an area outside of where it was purchased and intended for use, thus limiting the effect and spread of international media piracy;

SHOCKED that the removal of this system, rather than increasing free trade, holds the great potential to destroy legal trade and national economies, and increase illegal activities worldwide;

FURTHER APPALLED AND GREATLY OPPOSED to the poor use of grammar, spelling, and general formatting that is exhibited in this resolution;

HEREBY REPEALS UN Resolution #5, and renders it null and void for future reference;

AND ENCOURAGES the passage of a resolution to regulate the use of such regions, to protect international economies.

As you can see, I focused more on the actual effect of the resolution rather than it's poor format. This doesn't solve everything, of course, because there are regionless DVD's and players, which can play anywhere, but there is nothing we can do about that in a repeal. Any new legislation makes a repeal illegal. That's why I put in that last line there.

Hope that helps some. Let me know if you've got any questions about it.

Oh, and Jusma...
The UN is comprised of nations from around the world, more of whom don't have english as their first language. Hence as long as the resolution conveys its meaning, the RoJK is satisfied and understands the inability of the Author to write in good english.

While I do respect this point (A recently retired forum admin for my region is Danish, English is her second language), English is the official language of this site. The author may not have been able to translate this into English very well themselves, but there would have been plenty of people who could have helped, and there are always online translators even if that fails. A resolution should be clear and understandable.

I would support a repeal/replace, but not a straight repeal as i think that regions are not needed and removing them from DVDs and home video games consoles would help as it would mena that they could release DVD's/Games worldwide at the same time.

I supported it and just hope other delegates help put this to rest.


Come on. Let's just bring this to the floor and end it all ready :) !

But one region is all wek need. Can't youk see that? Just kidding. I tend to approve these. In fact, there are a couple of them currently submitted that I have approved.

Hersfold, although I oppose the proposal in this thread, your proposal would have certainly kept me thinking twice. It was beautifully wriiten.

Too bad it didn't pass earlier.

Hersfold, although I oppose the proposal in this thread, your proposal would have certainly kept me thinking twice. It was beautifully wriiten.

Too bad it didn't pass earlier.

Quite. The repeal proposed by Hersfold is the best I've seen to date, much better than mine.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones

I disagree with the belief that this is not serious enough of an issue to warrant a resolution, not to mention that I think it is a ludicrous practice held by the industry (and quite frankly, ineffective in meeting their objectives). As such, I cannot support this repeal as it stands.

This isn't a practice held by the industry, at least not in the NationStates world. And we certainly don't need UN legislation about it. If the film industry wants to create regional codes, let them. It's not up to a government to interfere with that, and certainly not up to the UN. Let the people vote with their wallet: if the film industry does this, their sales will go down.

(and in Groot Gouda we don't protect copy-protection systems by law, so scientists can research those and publish freely about them. If the industry creates bad DRM systems, they can clear up their mess themselves instead of using our justice system for that.)

I will inform my delegate to support this proposal.

Quite. The repeal proposed by Hersfold is the best I've seen to date, much better than mine.

Minister of UN Affairs
Edward Jones

Umm... was there anything wrong that I said? I was also saying something in support of that repeal. :confused:

Let's get this off the books people. It's humiliating.


Wek? WTF is a wek?

Wek:
pronouced (krap)

1. The misspelling of we.
2. Poor judgement on the part of 4,266 individuals who saw it and said nothing.
3. Sound made as the proposal hit the "fan".
4. Originally used as a slang in the proposal writers native nation, until Asians introduced the wok and became offended by the idea that they were thought to eating something that came from wek as oppose to a wok.