Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:29:22 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Fabian Keil" <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEJEFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051017102039.133e528b@localhost>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Fabian Keil >Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 1:21 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive > > >"Alastair G. Hogge" <agh@tpg.com.au> wrote: > >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:33, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> > I don't think that region coding really matters for Unix. But, >> > just try mplayer since from what I remember it didn't require region >> > coding at all in order to play DVDs in Linux/*BSD. > >> Aren't DVD players(the hardware) region restricted thou? Does mplayer >> get around that? > >The firmware restriction only works in combination with the software. > >If you are making a DVD player and want a license to descramble CSS, >you have to sign that you also implement the user restrictions. > >If you descramble CSS without license (like mplayer does), >you don't have to. > However, most DVD rom manufacturers that I have seen go ahead and implement the user restrictions that the MPAA wants (ie: region codes) anyway, even on bare drives sold primariarly for data useage. Ted
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