[sldev] Re: [ARCH//META] Permissions and limitations of distrust

[dirk husemann]

Lawson English wrote:
> Anders Arnholm wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 12:38 -0700, Lawson English wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Then I realized that there are already precedents where region codes
>>> are supported in DVDs. Hack your video player to play multiple
>>> region DVDs and you are violating the law. Start selling or making
>>> available for distribution, the content of region coded DVDs, and
>>> you're liable for breaking several laws at once.
>>>     
>>
>> I can  only with some certainly talk about swedish laws, but making a
>> region free dvd player is definitively legal here, about 90% on the
>> market here today is region free. It's wel inside fair use as well.
>>
>> Balp
>>
>>
>>   
> Is modifying it and then reslling it OK as well? Seems to kind of go
> against the whole concept of regions...
it is here in switzerland. i always bought my DVD players modded from a
bona fide vendor. the whole region code system seems a bit silly as long
as you can do private imports of DVDs (or buy them abroad while there
and take them with you) --- after all you've paid for the DVD and the
right to watch it, haven't you?

    cheers,
    dirk

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