Soz if this is stating the obvious!

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I am not a lawyer, but I have heard it said that doing this is legal, because there is no law that permits DVD makers to restrict free trade in this way to start with.

I am very pleased to see that the porn studios all use region-free discs.

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thanks for the idea.

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HTH.

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Thought IDE controller cards would be cheap, but on a quick look, I guess they're not. Never been there myself as my PCs are all SCSI for hard disk, which leaves plenty of room on IDE.

I s'pose it might be cheaper to buy an inexpensive IDE RAID card and service your HDs from that? Or even swap your CDRW drive for a DVD ROM / CDRW. Or you could buy a USB DVD drive; they're not cheap tho'

Hope you find a solution!

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cheers.

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http://slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

There are a few other emulators like anydvd, it's the easiest and will also defeat safedisc, securom, etc. for personal backups. Yeah, it gets rid of copy protections, but you're ultimately just screwing people like mason, guy capo, selena, etc over, not screwing david geffen out of buying more stuff from the back of the robb report-end of disclaimer

basically, if you don't know what you're doing, something as easy as dropping a drive in will be a fiasco if you're not sure how to set the jumpers on it, how not to ruin your computer with static electricity. plus a 30 dollar cd-rw drive still reads and writes faster than the best dvd-rws(plex.708, etc).

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i know about static electricity and setting jumpers (i built my pc), but even still i'd rather not get another drive.

cheers

Fear is the mind-killer.

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