Thanks Mark - what is the source of that information? <br><br>I'm interested because (so far as I am aware, and according to the SmartCopying webste) it remains illegal to bypass the protection on many commercial DVDs. <br>
<br>The reason given for it being illegal would seem to also apply to the region encoding. Different thing, but still a Technological Protection Measure I'd think.<br><br>from <a href="http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/529">http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/529</a> :<br>
<br><strong>"SCHOOLS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FORMAT SHIFT IF MAKING THE FORMAT
SHIFT COPY CIRCUMVENTS AN ACCESS CONTROL TECHNOLOGICAL PROTECTION
MEASURE</strong> Most commercial DVDs are protected by an <a href="http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902">access
control technological protection measure</a> (access control TPM).
Schools are not permitted to circumvent this <a href="http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902">access
control TPM</a> to make a format shift copy (eg, by using software such
as deCSS or DVD Shrink)."<br><br><br><br>Cheers, ken <br><br>TASITE <a href="http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au">www.tasite.tas.edu.au</a><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Mark KELLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">On a similar note, you should know that DVD region encoding has no support under copyright or any other law, and you are free to use any means to circumvent region limitations imposed by movie distributors.<br>
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