Video Asylum

TVs, VCRs, DVD players, Home Theater systems and more.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

Still wrong...

Posted by astralnavigator on September 5, 2009 at 10:54:35:
Modifying a blu-ray player to be region free is COMPLETELY legal and if you can cite a specific statute, since you still want to argue this, please do so.

There isn't one.

Region free coding is a COMMERCIAL LICENSING issue - it's contractual between the licensor of the Blu-Ray patents and the manufacturers who are licensees. If a manufacturer violates that agrteement, it is a contractual breach which would bring civil penalities if litigated.

There is NO contract between the patent licensor and the consumer. The consumer is perfectly free to do what they want with their players in terms of modifying them to be region free.

Funny that a person who claims to be a Blu-Ray "Reviewer" knows so little and continues to argue a simple, incorrect position.