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Post #27,644
by SpiceWare
2/7/02 10:30:44 AM
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New I'd have to say they are legal
otherwise the studios would take the DVD Player manufacturers to court instead of coming up with [link|http://www.dvdtalk.com/rce.html|Regional Coding Enhancements] to stop the regionfree players from play certain DVDs.

I also remember reading about a country(in Europe I think) where it's mandatory to sell region free players.

Darrell Spice, Jr.

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Post #27,647
by bluke
2/7/02 10:47:24 AM
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New Not so sure
Here is a quote from that site:
"How It Works \ufffd In simple language, the RCE allows the disc to detect if a hardware player is region specific (as required by the CSS licensing agreement), or if it has been manufactured or altered in the market to be "region free"."

It sounds like the CSS licensing agreement requires all players to be region specific. Therefore a multi-region or no-refion player is violating the license agreement.
     DVD Player question - (bluke) - (15) - Feb. 7, 2002, 08:42:45 AM EST
         I'd have to say they are legal - (SpiceWare) - (1) - Feb. 7, 2002, 10:30:44 AM EST
             Not so sure - (bluke) - Feb. 7, 2002, 10:47:24 AM EST
         Could be an older DVD player? - (nking) - (1) - Feb. 7, 2002, 09:56:12 PM EST
             No it's brand new - (bluke) - Feb. 10, 2002, 03:21:50 AM EST
         Ah... Region Coding... - (static) - (10) - Feb. 10, 2002, 07:46:05 PM EST
             BZZZT - Technical Error! (Or, hopefully, a typo nit-pick.) - (CRConrad) - (9) - Feb. 13, 2002, 10:40:04 AM EST
                 Hot-button topic for you, Christian? - (static) - (8) - Feb. 16, 2002, 06:25:07 AM EST
                     What, semantics? And here I assumed you meant... - (CRConrad) - (7) - Feb. 18, 2002, 05:35:16 AM EST
                         About that censorship ploy.. - (Ashton) - Feb. 18, 2002, 06:48:41 PM EST
                         This is bizarre... - (static) - (5) - Feb. 24, 2002, 12:50:42 AM EST
                             Yes, it's bizarre how you can persist in being so wrong: - (CRConrad) - (4) - Feb. 25, 2002, 01:06:52 PM EST
                                 That's "statictate". - (static) - (3) - Feb. 26, 2002, 06:18:34 AM EST
                                     Yup, saw that. I spelled "cansorship" further up-thread, too -NT - (CRConrad) - Feb. 26, 2002, 07:07:22 AM EST
                                     OTOH a statictite - (Ashton) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2002, 03:02:17 PM EST
                                         Hmm. I wonder if a little history is called for... - (static) - Feb. 27, 2002, 05:37:02 AM EST

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