On Monday 24 April 2006 14:39, Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> >> Huh. The "play all regions" hack I did to my DVD player must have
> >> enabled such operations, because I don't have those restriction. I'd be
> >> mighty annoyed too.
> >
> > I believe such hacks are prohibited under the DMCA. What you are doing is
> > probably as illegal as downloading and installing Win32 codecs for Linux,
> > something no right-thinking, law-abiding American citizen would ever
> > think of doing.
>
> In effect I'm only fast-forwarding past content I don't wish to see. Was
> it ever decided whether that's legal? I'm sure that's a can of worms the
> MPAA doesn't wish to open.
Agreed, but that did not stop Phillips from developing and patent a method to
stop people from skipping channels during commercials... Not that we ever
realize that we need to change channel during commercials either.
--Steve Szmidt
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