Re: Skeptical about RSACi

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From: Sam Knight
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 00:00

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In aus.censorship Bob Bain <bobb@acslink.aone.net.au> wrote:

:  Possibly slightly off topic but I note the standard for DVD ( Digital
: Video Disks ] has a byte which can be decoded relative to a geographical
: region.  The intent appears to be that those releasing movies on DVD can
: do so regionally, restricting playback to certain geographical areas,
: which according to this month's "Family PC" are:- 

Sorry about this off topic post, but it's 'digital _versatile_ disk'.

I agree that the aim is pretty appalling, but I'm confident that society
will reject it simply by supplying soft/hardware to get around the problem
(just like the issue of reading digital data off CD audio disks on computer
CDROM drives..)

Sam

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From: Sam Knight <sknight@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Skeptical about RSACi
Date: 1997/08/29
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