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Open-source guru backs off DVD hack
Posted on 28/07/02 11:17 by Steffen
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA is starting to have success. More and more we read messages of people who don't even want to share their knowledge anymore because they are afraid of this new act. Or they are forbidden to inform the public by their company like the following man:
Perens' speech will be preceded by one from Martin Fink, his manager at HP, who will explain why the company was uncomfortable with what Perens had originally planned. Perens said he had no intention of violating copyrights--rather, he just wanted to view "AI," "Gladiator" and other DVDs he had bought while in Europe. |
Why aren't we allowed to circumvent these stupid DVD player controls? They were only invented so that we couldn't see movies that were already on DVD somewhere else and thus to let Hollywood make even more money. But Bruce Perens hasn't the money to sponsor those big election campaigns. Read the entire story here. If you do, don't forget to look at the last paragraph.
Source: ZDNet
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When you buy a DVD, they should supply a copy for every single region, since only one person is going to be viewing it, but the user should be able to watch their copy anywhere in teh world.
In the meantime, we'll just have to rip the DVDs, remove the protection and distribute them as S-VCD or Divx which are totally region free.
So what do they think of that eh?
Erm ...
Overcoming region protection is different to defeating copy-protection. You can't copy a DVD after circumventing region protection - the copy protection is still there, and has not been interfered with.
There is no breach of the DMCA by making a device region-free (imho).
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