Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

[Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:52:13PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > handful of uses!  And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies 
> > while travelling internationally that will play when I get home!
> 
> If you're talking about region codes, that's a trivial matter to bypass.
> 
> 1: Use something like vobcopy to mirror the DVD to your hard drive.
> 2: Fire up a hex editor.
> 3: Open up VIDEO_TS.VOB
> 4: Change the contents of memory location 0023 to 00
> 5: Save the edited VIDEO_TS.VOB file back to the hard drive
> 6: Burn ripped and edited DVD to a fresh disk
> 7: Play your newly copied, now Region Free DVD in the player of your
> choice.

... in the USA, realize that you have violated the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act and are now a criminal.
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Carl Fink                                 carl@finknetwork.com
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
        -Bruce Tognazzini