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2. DVD region code - Wikipedia

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   DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997. [1] It is designed to allow rights holders to control the international distribution of a DVD release, including its content, release date, and price, all according to the appropriate region. This is achieved by way of region-locked DVD players, which will play back ...

3. Regional lockout - Wikipedia

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   Regional lockout. A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced through physical means, through technological means such as detecting the user's IP ...

4. DVD-Video - Wikipedia

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   A normal DVD player can only play region-coded discs designated for the player's own particular region. However, a code-free or region-free DVD player is capable of playing DVDs from any of the six regions around the world. The CSS license prohibits manufacturing of DVD players that are not set to a single region by default. While the same ...

5. An Act to amend the Copyright Act (40th Canadian Parliament ...

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   Bill C-32 was also interpreted as banning the user of region-free DVD players. According to CBC News , the bill would have even criminalized "websites designed to encourage violation and piracy". [10]

6. VLC media player - Wikipedia

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   VLC media player. VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS.

7. DVD player - Wikipedia

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   DVD player. A Sony DVP-SR370 DVD player and USB support connection. A Philips DVD player with built-in four-directional control buttons. A DVD player is a device that plays DVDs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards, two different and incompatible standards. Some DVD players will also play audio CDs.