Region Free PC DVD

**Monarch** · 10-01-2006, 09:41

Hi,

I used powerdvd simple option to watch a region1 dvd and now I can't change it back to r2. It says I still have a chance to change regions but when I try to change it just says "error: make sure you have admin rights and region 2 media in the drive",...I have both of these.

My actual DVD player is broken so my pc is all I have,

Edit: Nvm, I found a solution.

**Lemur** · 10-01-2006, 17:24

Just be grateful you live in a country that doesn't have the DMCA. Changing the region on your DVD software is quite illegal in the U.S.A.

**Monarch** · 10-01-2006, 21:23

Originally Posted by Lemur

Just be grateful you live in a country that doesn't have the DMCA. Changing the region on your DVD software is quite illegal in the U.S.A.

Weird, because the software I got charged dollars (but I *ahem* didn't get it from there), I guessed it was US dollars. They claimed it was legal.

**Lemur** · 10-01-2006, 23:13

Originally Posted by Digital Millennium Copyright Act

No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

You're a criminal, Spino. Get used to it. If you do an end run around any sort of copy-protection, you're in violation. I have called the police; please do not leave your house.

**AntiochusIII** · 10-03-2006, 04:27

Originally Posted by Lemur

You're a criminal, Spino. Get used to it. If you do an end run around any sort of copy-protection, you're in violation. I have called the police; please do not leave your house.

Just about everyone breaks that law anyway, though. Everyone that knows how, that is. Stupid laws, or devious laws, if can't be changed, are to be broken.

I didn't know PC DVD-ROMs have the region code though!

**Lemur** · 10-03-2006, 04:32

It's actually coded to the motherboard. Oh no, by telling you that, I'm encouraging you to break the law and become a criminal ...

The truth of the matter is that no unenforcable law should be enacted. It makes a fool of the legislators and a mockery of the law. It creates cynicism where none needed to exist.

I'm not saying that the DMCA is the worst law ever written, but it's got to be up there in the top 50.

**hoom** · 10-03-2006, 13:24

Top 50? I very much doubt it, there have been a very large number of law writing entities over the last 10,000 years or so & I doubt that any of them failed to make at least one monumentally stupid law and with those kinds of odds, DMCA probably pales in comparison to a lot of those clangers.

**doc_bean** · 10-04-2006, 09:00

The WTO has been complaining about region encoding for some time now, too bad the big guys only listen to it when it's in their best interest...

Actually, I don't even understand how it could be in anyone's best interest besides the movie companies. **** Hollywood.