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Yesterday I received Stargate SG1 Season 2 Volume 2 from Netflix and pop it into my XP desktop so I could watch it with that computer and surf and stuff on my MacBook. So I fire up Asus DVD 2000 that has always worked in the past and I get some error that I did not write down. Well that sucks, but I have other ways to play a disk so I fired up Windows Media Player and got an error saying there was a problem with the copy protection and the disk could not play.

What? Problem with the copy protection? This was a legit disk, and I was just trying to play it, why would there be a problem?

So I say, “screw it” and pop it into my MacBook, and guess what! That’s right, fired up first try and played through no problem.

I love my MacBook
 
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Some copy protection schemes will keep DVDs from playing on non-standard DVD players like your computer. Fortunately for us, many of them don't put Mac compatible protection on the discs so they work fine for us.
 

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