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--- Forwarded Message from "Greg Smith" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Reply-To: "Greg Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>From: "Greg Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"    <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Re: #7278.1 New computers with DVD drives and regions (!)
>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 15:39:04 -0700
>Organization: CSUMB

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Gus,
Without getting too deep into this, if a DVD is encoded for playback in
only a specific region, wouldn't defeating this be a violation of the
copyright or other use agreements?
Greg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gus Leonard" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:49 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: #7278.1 New computers with DVD drives and regions (!)


Greg,
I don't know if htis request has come to you ever, but because DVDs are
Zone regulated, there are some hacks that allow international DVDs to be
played back on standard computer DVD players.
I thought this list might be useful to you sometime.
--Gus
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Hello,
I talked about the solution to this problem implemented at St. Lawrence
University at CALICO in May in Ottawa.  Here are some links from that
presentation.  These focus on a long-term fix that renders the DVD-ROM
region free permanently (several different  options for accomplishing
this).

*DVD Genie http://www.inmatrix.com/genie/index.shtml
*Region Killer http://www.elby.ch/english/fun/software/index.html
*Win2000 & Win XP Registry Hacks
http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/win2000.shtml
*DVD Region Free http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm
Regards,

Carine Ullom
Director, Language Resource Center/
Instructional Technology Specialist
Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617




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>>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:24:39 -0400
>>From: Laura Atkinson <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: New computers with DVD drives and regions
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>Hi all,
>
>When you get new computers in that have DVD drives, do any of you have
a
>process for locking the firmware down to a specific region? My
>understanding is that most drives let you change regions 5 times before

>they lock, and it would probably not be good if any of the machines got
>locked into something other than region 1. Or, maybe it would be good
to
>select certain machines to be region 1, region 2, and so on. In any
event,
>I want to choose what happens with each one rather than leaving it to
>chance.
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>Any of you have well-thought-out policies about this?
>
>Thanks!
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>Laura Atkinson
>Technical Coordinator for Foreign Language Computing
>Duke University
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