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Re: DeCSS, crypto, (regions removed??!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Jan 9 15:56:18 2003
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 11:07:19 -0800
To: Martin Olsson <mnemo@acc.umu.se>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20030108155002.01dc8740@pop.acc.umu.se>
At 03:54 PM 01/08/2003 +0100, Martin Olsson wrote:
>Hi,
>I dont know if this is relevant to the discussion, but in Sweden (not a
>region-1 country) people where so pissed at the regionsystem (and the fact
>that most computer geeks could go around it, but the average person could
>not) that the whole region concept had to be removed. Ie. this forced the
>large companies to rethink and nowadays we have commercial region-free DVD
>players in most stores.
That's an interesting change - a couple of years ago,
friends from Sweden told me that the standard was to
strictly sell only region-enforcing DVD players
and then charge a bit extra for installing the
region-free mod chips that everybody bought.
I guess they've stopped bothering with the games by now.
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