From: Adam 

Don Hills wrote:

> In article , "Glenn Meadows"

wrote:
> |My guess is that the film studios solution would be to just not sell DVD's
> |in France ....
>
> Not so simple... too big a market. The way distribution is set up, whatever
> they do has to be EU wide or it won't be effective. If they simply comply,
> they'll just turn off the Macrovision bit on that region's discs. But my
> guess is they'll fight it as long as they can. The trouble for them is that
> If they do try to hold out, you can expect the DVD player manufacturers to
> "unhide" the Macrovision control switch in player setup menus.
>

It's more than that though........it means deCSS is not just legal but necessary.

Should be fun when the IP cartel want to intro ever more interesting
drm....e.g. for the blue lazer stuff.

Adam

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