[Gllug] Region Free DVDs - petition

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:37:41PM +0000, Alain Williams wrote:
> You may want to sign this petition:
> 
> 	http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DVD-region-free/
> 
> Apparently Brown has been unable to play a DVD given to him by Obama
> due to region encoding issues :-)

There's not a practical problem either playing or ripping DVDs.

Some worthwhile topics for petitions:

 - Make region-coding illegal.[1]  This would be useful because it would
   apply to future formats such as Blu-ray.

 - Make (or keep) EUCD circumvention legal for a variety of uses, such as
   interoperability, accessibility by disabled people, excerpting for
   comment and parody, ...  Again by making this a specific obligation
   it ensures that Linux can play future formats.

 - Stop software patents from being used as anti-competitive tools.  You
   shouldn't be able to patent around a standard, full stop.

Rich.

[1] As in, explicitly illegal in UK law.  It's probably illegal
already under various free trade agreements.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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