Software Solution to DVD RPC2 Region Locking?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday October 26, 2002 @03:30PM from the does-it-really-work dept.

Martin writes "I just saw the DVD Region-Free utility, the other day. 'It allows you to watch all region DVDs on any DVD drive (especially RPC2) even if it has been locked. You don't need hack DVD drive (flash firmware) which is sometimes dangerous, useless or unavailable.' This seems really significant to me, yet I haven't heard anything about! Is this the first software based solution to RPC2?" Of course, it should be stated that the software mentioned above is for Windows only. Are there other similar pieces of software for other platforms?

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Re:Ask Slashdot by wotevah · 2002-10-26 15:53 · Score: 4, Interesting

Apparently Australian and New Zealand legislation already makes it illegal for companies to restrict the parallel importation of their products, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is poised to take action against DVD regionalisation. So if other places, including Europe, follow the lead, Steve Ballmer could find himself threatening to stop selling Xbox virtually everywhere...
( Quoted from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27790.html )