I am helping a newbie Mac user and have come up against a problem I have not
encountered before. He was given a couple of Chinese DVDs with different
zone codes and copied them  to his hard disk and got a warning that he had
only 2 uses more and he would lose the use of his super drive.  He is now
worried.

Is this use of a different zone recorded somewhere or is it in the firmware?
In other words can doing a clean re-install of the OS wipe out that record.
Or can we delve into the depths of the system and remove that record?

Bye the way, I have no idea of why he would want to copy Chinese DVDs. :-)

Any ideas or information would be of help.

Thanks

Lloyd