"Freedom Downtime" [was: Kevin Mitnick speaking at MarlboroSoftpro tonight... (fwd)]

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: 13 Nov 2002 19:47:24 EST
Scott Garman said:

>I was under the impression that all DVD players have royalties built
>into their cost that the MPAA gets. Thus releasing the title on DVD
>would implicitly support the MPAA. I could be wrong about this. 

That only applies to DVD *players*.  There is no requirement that 
DVDs must be recorded with region encoding/CSS, only that players 
be limited to certain regions.  
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Seeya,
Paul
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