Re:And the Cold War continues...... (Score 1)

I don't agree with your analysis and (by implication) slurs on many of our characters. Personally, I own over a large number (4-500 of them: haven't counted exactly) of DVDs. In this country (region 4) we get a much worse deal than the US, in terms of pricing, release window, and the trouble they take to do a proper encoding for a much smaller (PAL not NTSC) regional market. I want to plunk down dollars to by real (not pirated) discs from Amazon et al. DRM is all about stopping - segmenting the market so they can gouge consumers. I'm not a pirate, I just want to BUY the genuine article and play it. Personally, I can't see how they get away with all the regionalisation under the Tword Trade Organisation rules - it looks like a non-tariff trade barrier to me. Personally, I don't see why bypassing the DRM (I have a region selectable DVD player) makes me evil, a pirate or a thief. If the good folks at Doom9 mean that I can once again by legit discs in the knowledge that I can actually play them, kudos to them.