Re: DeCSS, crypto, (regions removed??!)

[Gilles Gravier]

In any case, some countries in Europe (this is the case for France and Switzerland, for example) are starting to make it illegal to sell disks that are not REGION-2 in the stores... so in effect, you can buy all the region free players in the world, if you have no access to the internet to buy your DVDs, you can't buy or rent REGION-1 DVDs anymore.

In effect, this is limiting access to local culture to only people who have internet or travel to the USA. For example, take the movie "36 Fillette"... a French movie (French version of Lolita, of sorts)... well, this French movie exists only on a REGION-1 DVD. Unless you can access the internet to order it, it is not possible to view it in France or Switzerland.

Gilles.

Bill Stewart wrote:

That's an interesting change - a couple of years ago,
friends from Sweden told me that the standard was to
strictly sell only region-enforcing DVD players
and then charge a bit extra for installing the
region-free mod chips that everybody bought.
I guess they've stopped bothering with the games by now.

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