And yet you don't explain how my example is "correct".

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Can you post an example of an underline in the mask?

One more outburst and you'll be found contempt of court.

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Pirated copy, I guess.

Wrong.

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Send me the disc, I'll check it on a "clean" system.

Yeah, right. Feel free to buy you own copy here if you wish to test it.

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Always?

You'll notice that I said "It seems". That means that it happened for every region free title that I checked after I started using Passkey.

I see that even though this topic is about region free BDs, none of the examples you provided are region free. So why don't you come up with some relevant info for a change? 

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AiAustria, rdodolak, DoubleDownAgain, Grendell, mediadogg and geekboy2 will come up with the relevant info on the subject.

I try hard to leave you alone. I request that you do likewise for me. Thank you.

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Why replace AnyDVD? Just curious.

I think this was a technical question, not a political one. I would also be interested in understanding a bit more about it. The part I understand least is why it needs constant updates and stay connected to a server. Is somebody collecting my activities?

Constant updates = because release companies are always trying to stop the current version of AnyDVD from working with their latest discs. The goal is to get as much of the 30 day window available as they can for people to buy the disc instead of copying one.

Stay connected to a server = It does not actually "stay" connected. It only contacts the server, *sometimes*, because: With DVD, the CSS encryption is actually broken on the client computer. With AACS encryption on Blu-Ray, the code that actually does the decryption is *not* run on the client computer. Instead, a database of **every single Blu-Ray release, ever** is stored in the AnyDVD executable. If the disc you insert is **not** in the local database, then it sends data to the server. If the server has it, it pulls the decryption info down. If it does not, then the **server** runs the code to break the decryption and adds it to the database. (The user has to wait some time, typically some minutes, to try their disc again after the server generates the decryption key and adds it to its database.) Later releases of AnyDVD update the client database, which is another reason for frequent updates. Another reason to contact the server is for BD+, which is another layer for protection some discs use on top of AACS. A local database for this would be several gigs, so it contacts the server for that as well. **Some** discs have BD+ broken on the client. **Most** newer discs do not; this is to make it less easy for studio disc publishers to see how BD+ is being broken and update their BD+ protections to make it harder for AnyDVD to break. It's a constant game of chess.

Passkey is exactly the same, as far as I'm aware. No discs are actually decrypted locally. It also uses a local database / server lookup method. I believe it **only** uses server lookup for BD+.

As for region patching, **that** is done locally. I have found that AnyDVD does this more reliably than Passkey. That's just my personal experience.

Wow Grendell, you da man!!! Thanks for all that good stuff    (I think I'm gonna have to read it a couple of more times ...)

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I'm done discussing with the troll.

Ten days have passed, what did they say in the Fab forum?