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Pin locked DVD chapters

Got a free DVD with the Sunday Sport. Its about Anthropology and stuff.

Anyway, the main feature is pants but it has 3 bonus movies on it which I wanted to check out. When trying to open these bonus 'movies' a screen pops up with a keypad and a premium rate phone number. It says you have to call the number to get the PIN.

Obviously i'm not going to do that. I'm thinking that the PIN number must be stored on the disk somewhere so my question is this, where would I look for it? I can't imagine it would be well hidden.

I've already lobbed the DVD in my computer and watched the bonus movies, they're not very good, I just want to know how I find the PIN number for future reference.

So you have to phone a premium rate phone number to have someone tell you how to access the DVD easter eggs?
Fuck that. The PIN will be on the web a few days later (ref. '1138' - Star Wars I, or '82997' - Terminator 2).

To find the PIN yourself, load the menu structure into PGCEdit. You will have to decipher the DVD commands, but if you know the PGC no. of the bonus title it shouldn't be too hard.

The pins won't be on the net, not for a low rent Lyndsey Dawn McKenzie soft Porn DVD.

I just haven't come across (pun totally intended) anything like this before. I wouldn't have thought it would be too hard to decipher the pin and I wouldn't expect it to be too well hidden. The disc doesn't have any kind of copy protection on it, all I had to do was lob it in my PC and watch the VOB files with VLC to view the 'hidden content'. No decryption needed.

I'll give that PGCedit thing a whirl, saw someone else suggest that on another forum too. Thread ishere, seems i'm not the only cheapskate pervert around.

Nah no joy. Finding nothing obvious with PGCEdit, will have another go later if I can be bothered.