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From: Walter Knopf (no email)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 19:55:25 EST
A good explanation and legal ramifications at:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1164011,00.asp
Walter Knopf
s/v Mi Casa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Manning" <>
To: "Live-Aboard List" <>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 5:03 PM
Subject: lv-ab: DVD Region Playback Control (RPC) information for cruisers
> OK, I've been getting a lot of off-list mails about this topic. Enough
> that i cant' really answer every single one so I'm hoping this will
> help some folks out.
>
> DVD Region encoding, technically known as RPC or Region Playback
> Control, is a form of copy protection enforced by the DVD Consortium on
> all DVD Players and imprinted to all DVD disks as part of the licensing
> of DVD technology. There is a nice, short non-tech explanation here :
>
> http://www.tech-faq.com/television/regional-playback-control.shtml
> (this also has links for software to get around region control)
>
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