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Originally Posted by dpastern
Fleabay has long been doing that...
But the movie industry has itself to blame. DVD region coding should be made illegal imho, it is not in the best interest of the public. As an example, I'm trying to get a copy of Hellsing: Ultimate...it's only available in region 1 & 2...the distributor/manufacturer doesn't care. No wonder piracy is on the rise...
Dave
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I think you'll find anyone selling pirated copies on Ebay doesn't last long, they get booted off pretty quick. I usually stick to long term sellers, not much chance of getting a bootleg one that way.
I think there was a ruling a few years back about DVD Players being region free in Aus, but only a recommendation I think, not mandatory. It was ruled as an unfair practice to have locked to Region 4, so its not illegal to change it in Aus.
There are ways of changing the region code of your player to Region 0 (Region Free), it involves getting into the service side of the firmware, normally hidden from Joe Public, usually just by punching in a code on the remote. Have a look on Google. It does not overide the copy protection on the disk, so you are not breaking any laws in that area either.
Not much chance of getting that Region Coding on the actual disks removed though, far to lucrative a lurk for the producers.
Bill