My beloved Mighty Boosh DVDs can’t be played in the USA! WHAT CAN I DO!?! FYI I’ve had some wine and I can’t googly it properly
I’d say, since you already own the DVD, it’s ok to download it’s contents from a piracy website…
Now that is a workaround
Back in the day a good workaround was to go buy the cheapest off brand sketchy dvd player you could find. The manufacturers were so cheap they never implemented region locking.
Aiwa is great for this. Often these are in thrift stores/goodwill for $5
Some regular ones also had a unlock code if you called the manufacturer and complained
I wonder if you can specifically order a player offline for this
There’s a lot of sketchier things easily accessible on Amazon, a player for an outdated media format seems pretty tame in comparison
If you were somewhere else you could use MakeMKV to break the region lock/DRM on the disc and give you playable files. Unfortunately, within the USA (depending on who you ask) cracking DRM is illegal. Though I am not aware of anyone ever being prosecuted for breaking DRM on discs for personal use copies of media they legally own. IANAL
Do we give a fuck? Do it OP
If anyone knows, has this been proven in court if it’s done to rip a copy of something you own?
Realistically nobody’s coming after you for that unless you do it on an industrial scale for profit
I know. It’s still a valid question because it affects how the devs for ripping programs implement stuff.
Are you using a hardware DVD player? Google the model number +region unlock or region free code.
there’s a program called Handbrake you can just rip it. you have to get a program to get around right protection, but I can’t remember what it’s called
MakeMKV
Everyone has very 2003 solutions. This comment is the modern and best solution that costs nothing (unless you don’t have a disc drive). MakeMKV or Handbrake it.
You download them from somewhere :)
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TIL that DVDs could even be regionally locked. That’s annoying.
On a PC you should be able to play it with VLC. At least I think you can. Don’t know how it is on Windows.
You can also buy a region-free DVD player
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libdvdcss?
I don’t know if it still works, but VLC and libdvdcss used to work fine
It’s easy.
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DVD Maker 3.2
Maybe a cheap VPN would work
