Just last night I was going to watch a DVD in my brand spanking new MacBook, when a dialog box popped up. It asked me to select to which DVD region I wanted to set my DVD drive. It also informed me that I had five more opportunities to change this setting. Five. So if I had six DVDs, say three from one DVD region and three from another, and I wanted to watching them in alternating order, i.e. Region 1, Region 2, Region 1, Region 2, Region 1, Region 2, I would then be stuck with a region 2 disc drive.
So my question is: Why? I paid for all those dvds. It is not difficult to make multi-region DVD players, as evidenced by the inexpensive region free dvd drives. It certainly isn't to discourage piracy, because right now, the only thing that will prevent me from using up all my region settings on my dvd player is to download pirated videos. I guess when I buy something it really isn't mine.
The other option is to go mucking about in the guts of my computer, voiding the warranty and possibly irreparably damaging my computador. If this sort of blundering keeps up, I'm switching to linux.
DRM, making the honest people dishonest.
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it's a driver thing. there were hacks that would open the driver up, dunno if they work for the newer OS X/drives.
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