From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"  wrote:
>It would need to be a big company. All the little ones get sued out of
>existence by the MPAA if they make something without the required copy
>protection thanks to the DMCA..

It'll probably be a Chinese company, just as it was with DVD players.
Granted, region protection is not copyright protection, which is why the
Macrovision defeat is better hidden than the region defeat in most players'
firmware.

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