They are perfectly legal, but they tend to be pricey and rare. There are some multiregion DVD players out there. However, because pirates rarely resell legitimate copies of movies (they are pirates, after all), this system's primary effect is to prevent movie collectors and frequent travelers from enjoying legally purchased films once they get home. Basically, it helps them release the same movie in different parts of the world-at different times and for different prices. If you believe the movie studios, this encryption is a necessary tool in the ongoing war against piracy. Is there any way around this?Ī: Most commercial DVDs use encryption that keeps them locked to one or more 'region codes,' meaning the discs you pick up in other continents usually won't play on an American DVD player. However, my laptop DVD player only allows me to switch 'regions' a fixed number of times.

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🥺 Was this helpful? Please add a comment to show your appreciation or feedback. Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed or Email Newsletter. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. See /usr/share/doc/regionset/README file for more information. On successful change of the region code, you’ll get a confirmation. After confirmation, the new region code will be set. If there are any changes left, it asks for the new region code. Would you like to change the region setting of your drive? :īy default regionset will show you the current region code of the drive, how often it has been changed and how many changes are left.

User controlled changes resets available: 4ĭrive plays discs from region(s): 5, mask=0圎F Regionset version 0.1 - reads/sets region code on DVD drives Regionset /dev /dvd How To Switch DVD Drive Region Code Within Linux?

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