RE: [dvd-discuss] Fox recommends multiregion (aka hacked) DVD players to UKc...

["Robert S. Thau" <rst(at)ai.mit.edu>]

Richard Hartman writes:
 > So it would be possible to produce a DVD intended for
 > region 1 -or- 2 play, but not for play in region 3?

Or a DVD which is playable everywhere *except* region 6 (China
--- excluding Hong Kong, which is region 3, in case anyone thinks this
isn't political).

And, let's recall, Time-Warner lawyer Dean Marks' revelatory testimony
at the Library of Congress DMCA hearings explicitly acknowledged that:

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  1              MR. MARKS:  Another reason why we need
  2  regional coding, why we do regional coding is that
  3  the law in various territories is different with
  4  regard to censorship requirements.  So we cannot
  5  simply distribute the same work throughout the world
  6  in the same version.  Local laws impose censorship
  7  regulations on us that require us to both exhibit
  8  and distribute versions of the films that comply
  9  with those censorship requirements.

... though strangely enough, China is the only case I can find where a
region's boundaries exactly coincide with a single political
jurisdiction... 

rst