Posted by Oldus Fartus on 02/24/06 02:23

Mike O'Sullivan wrote:
> Goro wrote:
>
>> Hurry, everyone buy SAMSUNG products!
>>
>> They are currently being sued by US movie studios for having a DVD
>> player that bypasses Region Coding and HDCP! Hey, ANY manufacturer
>> that bypasses DRM is worthy of MY support. I'll take a DOZEN! (i hear
>> it's not really that great a DVD player, htough). I wonder if it also
>> bypasses PUOPs...
>>
> In the UK, it's not in the least difficult to buy "multi-region" DVD
> players. They're the rule rather than the exception.

Ditto in Australia. Our consumer watchdog, the ACCC, ruled that region
coding was a restraint of trade, and as a result most players now either
come region free out of the box, or include instructions to make them
region free. They were very careful to separate region coding from
copy protection, and in effect threw down the gauntlet for distributors
to prove in the courts that bypassing region coding is something other
than restraint of trade.

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Cheers
Oldus Fartus

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