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gaspodeSo much for fair trade laws.
Once again the MPAA & Sony screw the consumer (through sony throwing literally millions of dollars in bribe money around). Its no real skin of my nose - I have a PS3 and an HD DVD player - not to mention Bluray and HD DVD drives in my PC (Btw - the cheapest way to play the disks - the drives are around 80 quid if you shop around).
The reason why I've been (and continue to be) so pro HD DVD is the lack of region coding. I have no problem with copy protection aside from fair use - thats a different arguement - however region coding is another matter. Why shouldn't i be able to pick up a disk if i'm in new york and play it at home? Region coding is in direct opposition to fair trade laws and as such should be denounced and denied.
As a matter of fact I can rip US Blurays into a format I can watch (I had to do this with a copy of Lost S3 that I was given, I own the disk so why shouldn't I ?) really easily - no lose of qulity or use of compression but its soomething I shouldn't have to do. I will continue to buy HD DVD's over blu ray for as long as they are being released (and theres a fair few lined up stateside for release over the next few month) .. By then I suspect someone will have produced a region hack for UK PS3's.
Once again the MPAA & Sony screw the consumer (through sony throwing literally millions of dollars in bribe money around). Its no real skin of my nose - I have a PS3 and an HD DVD player - not to mention Bluray and HD DVD drives in my PC (Btw - the cheapest way to play the disks - the drives are around 80 quid if you shop around).
The reason why I've been (and continue to be) so pro HD DVD is the lack of region coding. I have no problem with copy protection aside from fair use - thats a different arguement - however region coding is another matter. Why shouldn't i be able to pick up a disk if i'm in new york and play it at home? Region coding is in direct opposition to fair trade laws and as such should be denounced and denied.
As a matter of fact I can rip US Blurays into a format I can watch (I had to do this with a copy of Lost S3 that I was given, I own the disk so why shouldn't I ?) really easily - no lose of qulity or use of compression but its soomething I shouldn't have to do. I will continue to buy HD DVD's over blu ray for as long as they are being released (and theres a fair few lined up stateside for release over the next few month) .. By then I suspect someone will have produced a region hack for UK PS3's.
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Date: 2008-02-20 12:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-02-20 01:21 pm (UTC)Already answered this elsewhere, it's perfectly legal and as far as I am aware, no one is saying you can't (have I missed an MPAA memo?)
Region coding is in direct opposition to fair trade laws
Can you point me at such a fair trade law that applies? Just asking ... or is it the underlying principle of "fair trade"?
I own the disk so why shouldn't I
This too has already been answered. Copyright. It's a sucky law and hopefully it will be changed soon, but at the moment creating a copy of a copyright work without permission of the copyright holder is an offence.
I should point out that I am in total agreement with no region coding and we should be able to do what we want with *content* we've bought (regardless of the delivery mechanism, so it matters not whether it came on HD, BR, DVD, CD or via download), but the law has not kept up.
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Date: 2008-02-20 01:23 pm (UTC)Has something happened in the last few days, or is this just the same Blu-Ray stuff?
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Date: 2008-02-20 09:57 pm (UTC)In New Zealand they encourage gray imports to increase economic competition and keep prices down for consumers.