Comments on: Unacceptable: Hardware region locking on Mac

By: antrix

antrix — Thu, 11 May 2006 06:00:40 +0000

This wouldn’t be the first time Apple has gone out of its way to restrict people from doing things.. restrict even more than required by law. I believe their imovie software has some similar restrictions.

By: Ritwik

Ritwik — Thu, 11 May 2006 00:26:45 +0000

“One dude on the net has advertised a solution to the problem which basically says “Windows to the rescue!”: he actually uses VLC on Windows XP to output to a UDP stream and access the stream from his Mac using VLC. I can’t tell you how much that hurts.”

Welcome to the dark side(Windows), join me Luke(Mac) and we shall rule the world(Merger).

By: Soham

Soham — Wed, 10 May 2006 08:40:03 +0000

“The only people this bugs is people who legitimately buy DVDs. Pirated downloads or discs have no such problems.”

Couldn’t agree more. Thanks to a beautifully stocked pirated DVD store in Pune and damn near every nook of Bombay I was able to get the rarest of movies (I’m serious – I picked up ‘Au Revoir Mes Enfants’ by Louis Malle from a place near Churchgate), which played flawlessly on any player. Then once I bought ‘Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’ from a legit store for Rs.800 and had to go on the net and find the code to ‘unlock’ my Philips DVD player.

By: AC

AC — Tue, 09 May 2006 14:59:36 +0000

Ah. How the mighty have fallen.