[Ti] dvd area restriction

[philipp schmidt]

Please disregard. Has been handled previously (and very recently) on 
this same list.

Apologies for not reading (thinking) first.

P

On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 09:20 AM, philipp schmidt wrote:

> Attempting to play a first DVD on my new PB, I was shocked this 
> weekend to see a drive-specific region restriction (which could only 
> be changed 5 times).  I live in South Africa, travel extensively 
> throughout Europe and Africa and visit the US frequently.  I usually 
> buy DVDs in airports to avoid the gruesome collection of in-flight 
> movies and never had any problems playing them back on my Linux box.
>
> Questions:
>
> [1] Is there a way to disable the region restriction? Or use a 
> software application that ignores it?
>
> [2] Is it legal (or if not legal, enforceable) for a South African 
> resident to do so? I believe we have no DCMA-like legislature in 
> effect here yet ...
>
> Thanks.
>
> Philipp
>
>
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