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Vista won't work with regionless DVD drives
Annorax:
--- Quote from: KernelPanic ---It should have no effect, Microsoft's actions will only effect region-free hardware (RPC-1 drives).
Regionless DVD's themselves actually have a valid region code (region 0) and work within the system, regardless of whether the hardware is multi-region or locked.
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I believe that some time ago, I heard of DVD drives that allowed the user to set the region code and dynamically change it whenever they want. Was my source insane, or does such an animal exist and therefore by definition bypass this retarded "security" (of MPAA profits) feature?
Lead Head:
you can change the region code on computer DVD drives a maximum of 5 times
Orethrius:
--- Quote from: Annorax ---I believe that some time ago, I heard of DVD drives that allowed the user to set the region code and dynamically change it whenever they want. Was my source insane, or does such an animal exist and therefore by definition bypass this retarded "security" (of MPAA profits) feature?
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I remember hearing about this, too - and no, Lead Head, he doesn't mean standard changes (which can actually be reset, though the method escapes me). One of the places I heard about it mentioned some method to modify the hardware to ignore region codes and just read the titles (which could also be altered so that the user could change the region code whenever they want to whatever they want). Another method I heard was more obscure, and involved something along the lines of assigning an emulated drive to the same device driver as a physical DVD drive, taking care to only alter the region-code of the virtual drive as necessary. It could then be unloaded and reloaded once the five changes were used up. Again, I don't recall any of the sites offhand, and most of this is secondhand information, but I don't doubt that such methods exist somewhere. ;)
mobrien_12:
RPC2 drives are locked to a region. You can change the region five times.
There are people who write unofficial patched firmware to convert some drives to RPC1 drives (which MS won't support anymore :fu: ). You flash the drives and you have a regionless DVD-ROM drive now, if the firmware doesn't bork the drive.
There are also similar "unofficial" firmware flashes for some drives to allow you to reset the codes many more times than those MPAA bastards want.
The real reason behind the region controls is what all this "DRM" crap has been about since the beginning: the big media companies want to take control of content away from the people they sell it to.
worker201:
--- Quote from: mobrien_12 ---the big media companies want to take control of content away from the people they sell it to.
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That's the thing about copyrighted content - even if you sell it, you don't "sell" it. I paid to have a private copy of "The Two Towers", but I sure as heck don't own it in any sense of the word.
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