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I think he meant dropping the encryption all together. Would players not be able to play non-encrypted discs?


DVD encryption combined with anticircumvention laws mean DVD players that can skip no-skip content or play out-of-region DVDs aren't sold to mainstream consumers.

Without anticircumvention laws, there would be no incentive to use encryption. Such laws have nothing to do with piracy; they're about maximizing revenue from paying customers.




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