Or the populace will cheerily modify the machines to play all regions anyway, as the helpful gentleman in Singapore did for me when I bought my DVD deck. Just a couple of flicks with the serviceman's remote control was all it took to be region free. Didn't even need to tip him.
Region coding is a bit different from copy protection, though. I can accept being told not to copy something, but being told I can't view something merely because of my geographic location? <Tee-hee> And US DVD's from Amazon cost half what the local versions do! Richard Walker Yokohama, Japan on 02.7.10 10:36 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The record companies are trying this trick with copy-protected CDs. The DVD > folks already locked up regions. But at some point, either the populace > will accept it through sheer sick&tiredness, or they'll stop taking it, and > either stop buying this orwellian crap or push some legislation (the less > desirable situation, but they're just inviting it with this behavior), put > the companies out of business, and provide an object lesson for future > companies so involved with their own greed. > > Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
