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Let me Highlight the relevant portions...
"Here is the US letter of the law (from the Digital Millenium Copyright Act):
No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title...; to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner.
A region code (in the US) qualified as a "technological measure".
I make no comment on other countries' laws.... "
The copyright authorities allow the playing of a particular region's DVD's on that region's players. That is what they are authorizing when they release a DVD with a region code. So a region 1 can legally play on a region 1 player in the US.The copyright holders who released the DVD's in the US, expressly, authorise this. However, the purpose of the region code in the fist place was to limit the playing of DVD's to the region for which the player was authorized. To do otherwise <in the US> is a violation of <US> law. Criminal law, not just civil, according to the DCMA.
Is that clear enough?
Last edited by Greg Anos; 07-18-2014 at 04:20 PM.
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