Levy, Chen wrote:
Hi, List.
Up to this very day, I avoided buying a DVD drive, just because I was not
willing to pay for hardware with any DRM (e.g. CSS, RPC Region code -
RPC1/RPC2, RCE, APS, UOPS), however I need a DVD drive now.
I know there are software measures to defeat most stupid DRM schemes, but I
feel I shouldn't need to fight with my hardware in the first place.
Unlike what RPC is advertised as, it is NOT a hardware enforcing of the
regions. I know this sounds surprising, but that's just the way it is.
RPC-2 is just a way for the drive to store a number for the software,
and allow it to update it for only 5 times. Since Xine does not bother
asking the drive about the region (it does its own decryption), the RPC
matters none at all.
My laptop has an RPC-2 drive. It is still set to 5 possible resets and
no region code encoded, despite the fact I have used it to watch DVDs of
region 1 and 2 many times.
Shachar
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