Region 2 of Temple of Doom is Crippled

I just watched Temple of Doom, and I could have sworn that the movie was more graphic when I saw it as a kid/teen. Well, guess what:

The film was released on VHS several times in the 1980s and 90s and then on DVD in October 2003. It was packaged with the previous and later films in the series; however, the Region 2 version of the film was heavily censored. The BBFC says that this was because they did not get Spielberg’s permission to restore the edited footage, which includes more violence and gore. Noticeably, the main scene that was cut for the UK release was a close up of the removal of an unfortunate victims heart at the ceremony which was too graphic for a PG rating. The music tends to jump in-between scenes that were trimmed. Also Mola Ram’s line “Soon, Kali Ma will rule the world…” has been cut during the scene where Indy is forced to drink the blood of Kali. #

Now guess which edition I have… ARGH! FOILED AGAIN! The same damn thing happened with the Lord of the Rings extras material.

Living in the shadow of the BBFC sucks big time… Yet more encouragement for piracy.

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I’m sure, if you run that through a decoder, it’ll spell out “Fuck DRM”.

Grats Kevin for standing up in the face of major legal issues, and grats to the digg community for leaving behind “Top 10 CSS Tricks”, “Digg Needs a Picture Category!!1” and all the other ‘oh yawn, here we go again’ stories that seem to drag Digg into the mud these days.

May 1st to 2nd, the night Digg got Dugg.

Update: Boing Boing is chronicling the exponential rise in Google hits, all now displaying the code; all of which leads one to think that perhaps this is the mass of consumers whispering in the ears of the entertainment industry: “Try to respect us as human beings, and not as potential criminals”. Or as I like to say: “Shove your fucking DRM up your own ass. Please”.

Mac Mini Region-Free DVD?

DVD regions must die! It is ridiculous! I’m currently stuck, unable to change my Mac mini from region 1 to region 2, despite the fact that I have one of my five tries left. The fact that I even have this problem is idiotic, considering that I bought my DVD’s and I bought my Mac mini.

Neither are stolen or pirated, so why am I being bothered with this crap?

Anyway, does anyone know how I can break the law and put and end to this mockery?