User: mwcaldwell

Re:I don't get it...

On: Regulator Challenges DVD Zoning

Here is an example of the hyprocracy of the studios and region coding.

"The Castle" is an Australian movie. Long after the theatre release here and then in the US there was still no DVD release. Finally it was released on DVD - guess which region?

Region 1.

(Region 4 came a quite few months later)

To say that region coding is to protect differing distribution times is complete BS.

Re:Australian Net Censorship?

On: www.YourOpenSourceProject.cx is Free

There are differences between Christmas Island that is part of Kiribati and the Christmas Island in question.

Like one is part of Kiribati and one isn't (its part of Australia)

Oh, and one is in the Pacific Ocean and one in the Indian.

So, almost everything you are saying is wrong.

Create a program so you don't need deCSS

On: Salon Interview With Head Of MPAA

I have never used a windoze DVD player (yet) but..
I would think it would be easy to create a virtual DVD drive, that looks like a normal DVD drive to a licenced DVD player but actually stores everything
on a harddisk.

Would the MPAA jump up and down about this? It does not break the encryption. You could argue that it does not even circumvent the copy protection/access control.

This would allow all the evil things that deCSS supposidly does, and probably be legal?
(or which bit is illegal - reading the disk? storing the disk? playing the disk?)