Now that Blu ray has finally arrived, there's going to be a deluge of programs and utilities that attempt to crack the sophisticated region encryption it uses.

This program does exactly that by removing Blu-ray regional codes from Blu-ray discs thus allowing playback regardless of your wherabouts or from what country your Blu-Ray is from. This is great for those people in Europe that want to say, buy Blu-Ray discs on Amazon in the USA and play them in Europe (and vice versa of course). Blu-ray discs can feature various methods of encryption and this program is specifically aimed at removing "Blu-ray Disc Ripper 1.2 for .NET" encryption. However, it also supports removal of encryption by BD-J script. Version 2.0 supports removing of region code from ALL current and future Blu-ray titles, both with BDMV and BD-Java navigation. To keep up with Blu-Ray, the latest versions of this program have been updated with facilities for the removal of "Prohibited User Operations" on Blu-ray titles which enables you to do all those things that the disc previously wouldn't allow you to. Note that Blu-Ray region code remover requires .NET Framework 2.0 to run before you install it.

A handy Blu-Ray decoder for all those that want to buy and view disks from different regions although according to the forum, it can't unlock all discs so it comes with no guarantees.