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From: Lynn Fredricks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I also sympathize with the draconian use of DVD regions, since I happen to
speak
>and also read a bit of Japanese, and cannot in the US use Japanese DVDs
(nor may
>the fully native members of my family do so). The ONLY real value from
regions
>is price protection for the industry players and defeat of the gray
marketing of
>DVDs.
There are regionless players out there--they're just hard to find. You also
might want to find one that has a resettable "region switch."
I agree with the rest, though.
>In most cases, the original product was purchased by someone, and that
purchase
>included a license agreement on the product's use which limits the use of
the
>IP. That puts those copying folks into a breach of contract situation
because
>they are stealing IP.
AFAIK, a regular Music CD isn't licensed--it's just a legal copy. The
Courts allow some small-scale copying for personal use, and the companies
try and overlook small-scale trading (RIAA didn't knock on Napster until
Metallica called out...), but neither of these things grants a license...
stealing IP is, (in my non-lawyer, non-graduate, loser-white-guy, sophmoric
view), a violation of the federal copyright laws and a tort of theft.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer.
DM
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