DVD Region Settings

I have won the battle to watch my Family Guy DVD's in full surround sound. On a european DVD player. I have beaten the man. Primer: Movie companies release films on different dates around the world. in order to ensure that someone doesn't just order a dvd of Passion of the Christ, instead of going to the theater when it opens in Rangoon next week, they put different regions on dvd's. american discs only play on american players, european in europe, yemeni on yemeni, etc... I find this a personal affront. Luckily a lot of people do as well. enabler: the internet. When i first tried to get my computer to play both, i realized that my ibook was hard-wired only to play one, and i could only switch regions 5 times. so i downloaded a new media program that play every region. Score: Nick 1, assholes 0 Round 2: I recently put a surround-sound system and dvd player into my room. but the dvd player was locked on region 2. i got on the internet, found the code, and went home. i then changed the region code to '0', so that i could watch the 'garden state' dvd that my parents sent over to me. it worked, and i enjoyed the film Score: Nick 2, assholes 0 So why the attempts to constrain Nick? well, it mainly has to do with old people. once again, the technically retarded don’t know how the world works now. Information moves over old borders, and yearns to be free of paleocorporate constraints. If some businessman from Cape Town legally purchases some animated porn during a trip to Tokyo, why can’t he watch it in the privacy of his post-apartheid dvd player? anyway, I win. I just wanted to wallow in my own crapulence.