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>Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:39:05 -0700
>From: Jason McKrola <[log in to unmask]>
>Organization: Lewis & Clark College
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: DVD drives and regions and the DMCA - USC 1201 (a)(1)
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What I believe is the short answer to the Region Code question pending a
Copyright Office ruling:
- Hacking software: violation of the DMCA
- Region free players: violation of the DMCA
+ Changing the region on your DVD drive: permitted
+ Purchasing an unmodified non region 1 player: permitted
There is a proposal before the Copyright Office requesting the Librarian
of Congress to grant a limited exemption the DMCA pertaining to the
region controls on DVD players, however, a ruling has yet to be issued.
The proposal is limited to foreign motion pictures released as a non
region 1 DVD, and are not otherwise available on DVD in the United States.
This proposal was discussed in hearings (as stipulated in 1201 to be
held every 4 years) this past May.
The transcript is available here:
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/hearings/transcript-may15.pdf
The issue of region encoding is discussed in session 3, pages 226-324
of the transcript.
Reading the transcript, it is clear that under current interpretation of
the DMCA by the Copyright Registrar rule making committee, there are
certain instances of playing a non region 1 DVD that are not viewed as a
violation of USC 1201(a)(1).
These are:
1. Changing the region on your DVD ROM player, as permitted 5 times,
including resetting the count by an authorized dealer up to 5 more
times, for a total of 25 changes.
2. Playing the DVD on a non region 1 player, such as one purchased in or
imported from Japan or Europe.
However, playing the DVD on a "region free" player, i.e. one that has
been modified and "circumvents" the "access control" technology as
recognized in DMCA is viewed as a violation of 1201(a)(1).
The use of software to alter the region change counter on a DVD ROM
drive, although not specifically addressed in these hearings, would, in
my opinion, likely be considered a similar violation.
Stay tuned to the Copyright Office web site for their upcoming ruling.
Also, the IP Justice web site:
http://www.ipjustice.org/
Jason
LLTI-Editor wrote:
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>>Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 17:41:08 -0500
>>From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: #7278.5 New computers with DVD drives and regions (!)
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>>Reply-To: "Greg Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>>From: "Greg Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"
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>>Subject: Re: Re: #7278.1 New computers with DVD drives and regions
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>>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
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>----- 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
>(!)
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>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).
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>*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,
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>>When you get new computers in that have DVD drives, do any of you
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>have
>a
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>>process for locking the firmware down to a specific region? My
>>understanding is that most drives let you change regions 5 times
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>before
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>>they lock, and it would probably not be good if any of the machines
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>got
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>>locked into something other than region 1. Or, maybe it would be good
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>to
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>>select certain machines to be region 1, region 2, and so on. In any
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>event,
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>>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?
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>>Thanks!
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>>Laura Atkinson
>>Technical Coordinator for Foreign Language Computing
>>Duke University
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Jason McKrola
Manager, Keck Interactive Learning Center
Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Lewis & Clark College
Portland OR 97219-7899
(503) 768-7419
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