On Monday 20 March 2006 18:22, Jos van Kan wrote:
Are you sure? Did you actually try for instance to vobcopy the disk? I cannot imagine, that a *PC* dvd rom drive does anything in the way of region coding.
It does, sort of. The way it works is that the software playing the movie is supposed to ask the drive which region code it has, and only allow the movie to be played if it matches. The problem (for the MPAA (not the RIAA as a previous post stated, the Recording Industry Association of America isn't interested in movies)) is that it isn't actually illegal to ignore it, since it's not actually an encoding or encryption. This is why for example you'll be hard pressed to find a standalone player for sale in Sweden that doesn't ignore it -- Certified: Yes. Certifiable: of course! jabber ID: anders@rydsbo.net