At Least Some Corporations Have Guts
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At Least Some Corporations Have Guts
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That was originally off the Simpsons UK site by Fox. If you don't already know, I'm looking at getting some imported DVDs which has opened a whole new can of worms in the Region coding thing going on.
RCE is the main culprit that I have just noticed and hope that, like Micro$oft's Palladium, this goes down the shitter real soon. Even the RIAA may give up with their flagrant flouting of the freedom of customer's rights with their CD software that buggers up audio CDs in PCs.
Just thought I'd let ya know that not all of them are out to get us, just the RIAA, Columbia Tristar, Micro$oft and WB.
That was originally off the Simpsons UK site by Fox. If you don't already know, I'm looking at getting some imported DVDs which has opened a whole new can of worms in the Region coding thing going on.
RCE is the main culprit that I have just noticed and hope that, like Micro$oft's Palladium, this goes down the shitter real soon. Even the RIAA may give up with their flagrant flouting of the freedom of customer's rights with their CD software that buggers up audio CDs in PCs.
Just thought I'd let ya know that not all of them are out to get us, just the RIAA, Columbia Tristar, Micro$oft and WB.
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God damn microsoft. Just wanted to get that off my chest.
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Rawk on!weemadando wrote:Australia's competition "watchdog" overturned region coding as illegal IIRC. This also applies to the various audio CD copy-protection things that made them unable to work on PC.
Yay.
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Unsure. But I know that they would work perfectly here. *snerk*Admiral Valdemar wrote:So if I get the Region 4 NGE box set on DVD, will it play in my Region 2 player?weemadando wrote:Australia's competition "watchdog" overturned region coding as illegal IIRC. This also applies to the various audio CD copy-protection things that made them unable to work on PC.
Yay.
Eh, who cares? Insert the dvd into your computer DVD player and rip it with DeCSS. (I have no idea how you would go about doing this since I don't own anything that can play DVDs
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DVD region locking is performed in hardware on computer DVD drives. The various DVD fair-use tools can't be used to read out-of-region disks as they will be rejected by the drive hardware. The only way to read out-of-region disks on computer DVD drives is to install a region-free (cracked) firmware into the DVD drive.Pu-239 wrote:Eh, who cares? Insert the dvd into your computer DVD player and rip it with DeCSS. (I have no idea how you would go about doing this since I don't own anything that can play DVDs
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Actually only those made after a certain date. For early models you can just use a software program to handle it without having to use firmware updates.Enlightenment wrote:DVD region locking is performed in hardware on computer DVD drives. The various DVD fair-use tools can't be used to read out-of-region disks as they will be rejected by the drive hardware. The only way to read out-of-region disks on computer DVD drives is to install a region-free (cracked) firmware into the DVD drive.Pu-239 wrote:Eh, who cares? Insert the dvd into your computer DVD player and rip it with DeCSS. (I have no idea how you would go about doing this since I don't own anything that can play DVDs
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