14 March 2006, 3:00 AM
It is illegal in Australia to have code-protected DVDs? But you have code 4, right?
I mean, it's easy to solve this region code problem nowadays since practically every DVD player has some option to turn this protection off (I turned my player's protection off right after I got it, which was in 2001). A much bigger problem I see with Lynk's (otherwise perfect) idea is that movie or anime studios probably wouldn't want users to overlay their multimillion works with some amateur subtitles that may or may not fit, respectively destroying the original film - at least that's what they would probably think. Anything that's not officially approved by the studio can't be in their works, they would feel that it disrupts their original creation and probably mark it with a similar term as the software industry does with re-engineered copyrighted software (I don't mean mods, but mods also have to follow some guidelines).
Plus, if anyone could subtitle a DVD, who would still wait and pay for a domestic release that perhaps doesn't even have a dub? It drives back Western sales of licensed shows, breaks the schemes of publishers like ADV, and whatnot... at least that's what they'd think.
I mean, it's easy to solve this region code problem nowadays since practically every DVD player has some option to turn this protection off (I turned my player's protection off right after I got it, which was in 2001). A much bigger problem I see with Lynk's (otherwise perfect) idea is that movie or anime studios probably wouldn't want users to overlay their multimillion works with some amateur subtitles that may or may not fit, respectively destroying the original film - at least that's what they would probably think. Anything that's not officially approved by the studio can't be in their works, they would feel that it disrupts their original creation and probably mark it with a similar term as the software industry does with re-engineered copyrighted software (I don't mean mods, but mods also have to follow some guidelines).
Plus, if anyone could subtitle a DVD, who would still wait and pay for a domestic release that perhaps doesn't even have a dub? It drives back Western sales of licensed shows, breaks the schemes of publishers like ADV, and whatnot... at least that's what they'd think.