Posted by SamFoxFan on 04/05/07 21:39

"Eric Jones" <ejones999@btinternet.com> wrote:

>The newer Sony DVD s has a new DRM security.
>If it won't work on your machine get Sony to reimburse you the cost of the
>disc or send you one that is a proper DVD.

Yet another reason to never buy anything from Sony.

See also
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/01/16/a-history-of-dvd-copy-protection

From Wikipedia:
ARccOS is a copy-protection system developed by Sony used on some DVDs.
Designed as an additional form of copy protection, it is used in
conjunction with Content Scramble System (CSS). The system deliberately
creates a number of sectors on the DVD with corrupted data.

This is a list of the DVDs that are protected by the ARccOS Protection
system, which was developed by Sony.
* 8MM2
* All the King's Men
* Attack Force
* Annapolis
* Aviator, The
* Batman Begins
* Bewitched
* Bewitched - Special Edition
* Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
* The Breakup
* The Brown Bunny
* Capote
* Casino Royale (2006)
* Cave, The
* Chaos
* Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
* Chicken Little
* Christmas with the Kranks
* Click
* Closer
* Cool Money
* Crank
* Crossover
* Curse of the Golden Flower
* Curious George
* Da Vinci Code, The
* Daltry Calhoun
* Dark Water
* Dead Poets Society
* Descent, The
* Desperate Housewives: Season 2
* Eight Below
* Employee of the Month
* Exorcism Of Emily Rose
* Final Cut, The
* Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (Region 2)
* Finding Nemo
* Flightplan
* Fog, The
* The Forgotten
* Freedomland
* Friends with Money
* Fun With Dick & Jane (2005)
* Golden Girls: Season 3 (Disc 3)
* Golden Girls: Season 4 (Disc 1)
* Golden Girls: Season 4 (Disc 2)
* Golden Girls: Season 4 (Disc 3)
* Greatest Game Ever Played
* Grey's Anatomy Season 1 (Disc 1 & Disc 2)
* Grey's Anatomy Season 2
* Gridiron Gang
* The Guardian
* Half Light
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Region 4)
* Hitch
* Hoodwinked
* Hostel (Unrated)
* House of Flying Daggers
* Howl's Moving Castle
* Howl's Moving Castle (Bonus Disc)
* I Giorni dell Abbandono
* In My Country
* Inside Man
* Kinky Boots
* Kung Fu Hustle
* L.A. Story
* Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector
* Layer Cake
* Le Crociate
* Left Behind
* Legend of Zorro
* Lightning in a Bottle
* Little Black Book
* Little Man
* The Little Mermaid
* Longest Yard, the
* Lords of Dogtown
* Lost - The Complete Second Series
* Madagascar
* Man of The House
* Marie Antoinette
* Marksman
* Matador, The
* Memoirs of a Geisha
* Mindhunters
* Mirrormask (Region 2)
* Monster House
* Mountain Patrol
* Ocean's Eleven
* Once Upon a Mattress
* Open Season
* Pink Panther, The
* Prestige, The
* Producers (The) 2005 (Region 2)
* Proof (2005)
* Resident Evil 2: Apocalypse
* Rocky Balboa
* Run Lola Run
* RV
* SAW
* SAW III Unrated
* Seinfeld
* Seven Swords
* Shottas
* Silent Hill
* Simpsons - Most Seasons
* Spider
* The Fog of War
* The Simpsons: Season 3 (Disc 1)
* The Simpsons: Season 3 (Disc 4)
* Single White Female 2
* Sky High
* Squid and the Whale
* Stealth
* Step Up
* Stephen King Presents Kingdom Hospital
* Stone Cold
* Stranger Than Fiction
* Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild
* Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
* Transporter 2
* Ultraviolet
* Underworld: Evolution
* United 93
* US Vs. John Lennon, The
* Valiant
* Volver
* Walk the Line
* When a Stranger Calls (2006)
* White Dragon, The
* Who Killed the Electric Car?
* Wild, The
* Woods, The
* Xxx The Next Level
* Zathura SE
* Zelary

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