[LINK] Region Locked DVD Drives Illegal?

Brendan Scott brendansweb at optusnet.com.au
Wed Aug 23 08:52:21 AEST 2006


Deus Ex Machina wrote:

> it baffle me why the movie industry persists with this bit of
> nonsense actually. I have yet to find a dvd player that isnt
> multizone or cant trivially be made multi zone and that includes
> burners.  I buy most current dvds from amazon shops as mostly ex US
> rentals at a small fraction of the price of new zone 4 dvds. and
> usually before they are released as zone 4. whatever purpose zoning
> served a decade ago clearly has no purpose today when international
> sales are cheap and trivial to get.

Yes.  Politically it's such a loser, and their overreaching affects their credibility in other areas.   




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