It's a brief read at About.com, but the idea is that the issue is that there's a large wait time to see DVDs produced in various region codes - to the point of 6 months! 

All that time means that someone who'd usually have to wait that time relies on pirated copies in AVI/MPEG/etc formats, or they just bust the DVD player so it pays no attention to the codes.

Personally I think doing such would do little in the war on piracy.  Cams (recording a movie on a camcorder, which were made illegal in California recently) and screener rips are a far greater concern then region codes...

Pick as you need from here.

Here's the download link to the Win2k/XP edition.

And the Release Notes can be found here.

Now I'm off to install them for myself...

Nullsoft has released version 5.0 of their well-known WinAmp media player.   It's available in 2 versions - Standard and Pro.  The standard version is a much better looking version of the WinAmp we're all used to, and the Pro version ($14.95us) adds the ability to rip and burn.

[edit - The Pro version is not yet available]

Creative Technology Europe released details about it's new ATI RADEON based graphic cards.  They've added RADEON 9800 XT 256MB, RADEON 9600 256MB and RADEON 9200 SE 128MB graphic cards.

XBitLabs has the full story here...