"Justin" wrote in message
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James Sweet wrote on [Fri, 02 Jan 2004 21:33:43 GMT]:

"luminos" wrote in message
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"DarkMatter" wrote in
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:17:54 +1100, Franc Zabkar
Gave us:


I agree with the others who decry piracy, but at the same time I'm
enraged at how the various world governments allow the movie
industry
to openly flout restrictive trade practices legislation by dividing
the globe into marketing zones with the explicit intention of
stifling
competition and manipulating pricing. We all know this is immoral
and
illegal, and such practices should be prosecuted.


- Franc Zabkar

You're an idiot. The hierarchy was based on the way movies
trickled
into the rest of the world, back in the day. That evolves, surely.
Now, it is just business, and economy in a given region.

It is their product, and it is their right to "price it" at
whatever
they want in whatever market they are selling it in.


Region codes are far more sinister than that and should be tested in
the
courts.




Yes region codes I will agree are annoying, though it's almost laughable
how
easy they are to defeat, particularly now that you can get DVD players
so
ridiculously cheap that if you don't feel like hacking one of those Apex
or
similar units to be region free you can simply buy a second player for
the
other region you want. In the end all it creates is a small hassle.

Hmmm.. I dunno about that line of logic, seeings as very few DVD players
can convert Anamorphic PAL perfectly to NTSC


The DVD store format is the same for every region..
NTSC/Pal/whatever is done by the DVD player itself