Is DeCSS Legal In UK?

[David_Biggins@usermgmt.com]

I think it must have been for the same reason.

If it were not, surely the 'obvious' thing to do in terms of easiest
distribution would have been to put all English speaking nations into
one group, and so on.

Also, as I understand it, particularly in the earlier days it was common
for the US region to contain additional materials that were left out of
the overseas versions.

My personal belief is simply that region coding is an aid to
differential pricing - a practice that WIP should be addressing, but
surely won't.

## dave ##

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Tomlinson [mailto:pwt@iosis.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, 19 July, 2002 09:08
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Is DeCSS Legal In UK?
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> The old law of unintended consequences seems to rear its 
> head. Feature films
> on celluloid are released across the world region by region 
> at different
> times. I reckon DVD regionalisation follows the same 
> methodology, but was it
> done for the same reason? And what was the original reason 
> for region by
> region release of films? Perhaps just logistics of 
> manufacture of prints,
> physical distribution, and organisation of marketing?
> 
> Peter
> ----- Original Message -----
> Adrian Midgley wrote on Friday, July 19, 2002 8:34 AM
> > So regionalisation should cease.
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