DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics

[Adam Back]

I hear that as new-zealand made it illegal to sell region restricted
DVD players there (as John mentioned in his mail), that units (any
brand) bought for the .nz market are all region players.  Shouldn't be
hard to get one mail order of your choice.  (Or so a .nz person told
me -- he's on the list).

Adam

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 04:03:00PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Actually, that's not true. Kim's sells grey market units typically
> made without licenses to the DVD patent portfolio in places like
> China, and units that are more legal but that have been cracked. The
> latter are supplied with instruction sheets describing how to disable
> region coding. Some of these sheets actually say things like "we can't
> be responsible for the effects, but if you were to push the following
> buttons in the following sequence..."
> 
> I am unaware of legal region-free players being generally available in
> the US, although I may be wrong on this.

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