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On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:18:19 +1300, Phil wrote:

> What if the purpose is "to play DVD discs from region N", as long as the
> retailer doesn't lie about it to the consumer, then it's well within
> that particular law.

The purpose of a "DVD Player" is, tada, to play DVDs.

Region crippling circumvents the ability that the DVD Player would
otherwise have to play all DVDs. Hence Region crippling is illegal here in
NZ - because it is contrary to the Consumer Guarantees Act.

DVD Players must have the ability to play DVDs from all regions - or have
an easy method to disable the Region Crippling.


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On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:01:36 -0600, Blue wrote:

>> It is illegal to sell region-locked DVD players here in NZ because a DVD
>> should be playable in ANY DVD player that claims to conform to the DVD
>> standard, and likewise a DVD player should be able to play ANY DVD that
>> claims to conform to the DVD standard.
>
> So where is the DVD std? On the CD front there is a whole range of
> coloured books.

If the DVD player claims to play "DVD Video" then it must be able to be
played in ANY DVD that has the "DVD Video" logo on the case, or on the
disc or on the accompanying leaflet.


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Oh, here's another thing I'm not enjoying: I only installed Vista a
couple of days ago (and it hasn't been out very long) and already it got
me installing 186.3MB of updates.

I do hope it doesn't want to do that every bloody week.
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On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:14:02 +1300, Bystander wrote:

> Oh, here's another thing I'm not enjoying: I only installed Vista a
> couple of days ago (and it hasn't been out very long) and already it got
> me installing 186.3MB of updates.
>
> I do hope it doesn't want to do that every bloody week.

That is what some might call "upgrading beta components".

Why don't they simply release delta patches. That way the downloads would
be much smaller in size.


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Microsoft's business practises exposed in court:
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