NO, I said you most likely cannot sell ANY dvd player commercailly that you have modified without a DVD licensing agreement which would most likely preclude you from selling it at all without region 1 coding in usa. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom C Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: OT - for those of you who have DVDequipthatcan playPAL systemDVD's Show me in writing where when I 1) purchase a DVD player, that I am entering a license agreement not to modify the hardware/firmware of the player. or 2) purchase a DVD, that I am entering a license agreement not to view the material using a multi-region player. If you can do that, then you have a valid point regarding the legality of either action. If you can't, then I believe your understanding of the issue is faulty. Tom C. >From: "J. C. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: OT - for those of you who have >DVDequipthatcan playPAL systemDVD's >Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:48:45 -0400 > >Its not nonsense, and no public law needs to be passed >for licensing aggreements are broken to be considered illegal. I think >it comes down to the fact if you modify and resell a DVD player, you >have to have a DVD licensing agreement and that aggreement would not >permit you to do a hack like that. jco > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Bob W >Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:40 PM >To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' >Subject: RE: OT - for those of you who have DVDequipthatcan playPAL >systemDVD's > > >for it to be legal there would have to be legislation passed in every >country that participates. No sensible legislature (if that's not a >contradiction in terms) would waste its time on such crap which has no >benefit whatsoever to the consumer (aka voter). The whole region coding >thing is complete nonsense anyway. > >-- > Bob > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of J. C. O'Connell > > Sent: 19 April 2007 21:33 > > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > > Subject: RE: OT - for those of you who have DVDequipthatcan playPAL > > systemDVD's > > > > Then there must be some kind of loophole > > or blantant disregard for the sales agreements > > on these. I ask you, if it were intended to be legal > > to disregard the region coding why would be have even been > > implemented > > > in the first place? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Shel Belinkoff > > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 4:08 PM > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: Re: OT - for those of you who have DVD equipthatcan playPAL > > systemDVD's > > > > > > That's odd. I have friends in other parts of the world who have >such > > players, easily purchased in retail establishments in their cities. > > For example, a couple of friends in Tel Aviv have region free DVD > > players. > > And, as I said in an earlier post, they are readily available at > > numerous outlets in San Francisco > > > > Shel > > > > > > > > > J. C. O'Connell wrote: > > > > think about it for a second, if > > region free players or cross regioned > > players were available legally > > anywhere, the entire region coding > > system would make no sense to > > designa and implement! > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
