On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 04:29:54 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 9/2/2013 6:13 PM, deadalnix wrote:
Unless the industry is showing signs of understanding, I'm
done with theses
stuffs. When amateurs can do better for free, you are not
providing any service,
you are just scamming your customers.
I don't know about scamming, but I find the business practice
of ignoring people who want to throw money at you to be utterly
baffling.
For example, I want to watch Forbrydelsen. It's only available
as Region 2 DVDs. I have several dvd/bluray players, none will
play it. What the hell? It's 6 years old. Who is making money
off of me not being able to watch it?
(Amazon sez: "It won't play on standard DVD/Blu-ray players
sold in the United States.")
I'm unimpressed.
Region locking exists solely* to protect the distributors so they
don't have to compete with one another. I imagine if they tried
pulling this in a single country (rather than across country
lines), anti-collusion laws would kick in and they'd be subject
to some hefty fines and the practice would be banned.
* I'm sure they have their excuses for how it's good for
consumers and protects them from some imagined threat but
removing competition among the various distributors does nothing
but hurt consumers.
