Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ansel Adams on PBS TV
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:53:38 +1000
References: <20020423185408.92560.qmail@web21402.mail.yahoo.com>

>Yes. The prove is in my Mac Powerbook which I shuttle
>around crossing the Pacific fromm U.S. to Asia quite
>often. Everytime I want to view DVDs from different
>regions, the software prompt me for a change. But then
>it also warns me whether I definitively want to do
>that because it only allow 5 changes between regions
>and then the entire DVD locks up. My gripe is why
>build a Powerbook enabling portability and yet put in
>the firewall of copywrighting making the end-user
>suffer like crazy.

So you have to have 2 or buy a new one every year. Its all part of 
the $ game, which the computer industry has begun to perfect: others 
follow in line -- imagine how expensive food could become ;-)
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Alastair Firkin

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