On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:55:50 +0000 Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Martelli wrote: > > Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > > >>due to the Evil Conspiracy of region-coding, I couldn't > >>watch the British DVD even if I were to import it (Well, > >>yeah I could, but it would be painful, and probably > >illegal, > > > > > > I have a region-free DVD player here in CA -- > > considering that I brought with me a hundred or more > > DVDs from the old country, and I get as many more here > > in shops or via netflix, I really couldn't do without. > > I legally ordered it on the web and it was legally > > delivered. What's illegal about it?! > > > Nothing at all. But I still prefer tales of people who > have hacked their DVD players to be multi-region :-) It isn't illegal in Canada anyway. And yes, it would be possible for me to pay a very high price to get a region-free player in the USA, but I'm certainly not going to. IMHO, region coding is an immoral abuse of the economy -- the corporation that produces the video benefits from cost-savings resulting from the globalization of the labor market, but then uses cryptography to prevent the consumer from benefitting from the same globalization. If it were just a matter of breaking cryptography, though, that wouldn't be such a big deal: they write it, we break it. Tough cookies. But the US has made that illegal -- even when it is a practical necessity to exercise fair use rights on legally-purchased media. I am disgusted by that. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
