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Gretchen,
 
We allow patrons to play DVDs on our computers. I think we've had one or
two times where questions were raised about content although I think in
our case, it was about violence, not nudity. In any case, we've dealt
with these complaints as they've come up. If the concern is about people
viewing racy material, you might as well shut down the Internet. 
 
Good luck!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI
 
 
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From: Library NT [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gretchen
Garcia - LIBRARY
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 5:36 PM
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Subject: Windows 7 & DVD playing



Reviving the old LibNT list! ;) For those of you who have deployed
Windows 7 to the public desktop, what are you doing about Win7 being
able to play DVD's natively? We don't allow DVD's to be watched on
public computers currently due to patron complains regarding R movies /
racy movie scenes where children could possibly view the screen but we
don't see a way to kill this off short of either 1) disabling the DVD
drive 2) disabling Windows Media Player. Neither which seem like good
options to us.... 

 

So what do you do? Allow the movies to be able to play and deal with the
problem customers as they arise? Kill access to one or the other? Found
some 3rd party toy that disables it for you? 

 

Thanks for your input! ;)

 

Thanks,

Gretchen Garcia

MCLD IT Services

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