Region Locking

Apr 15, 2008 09:17

Region locking sucks. My DVD drive on my Linux box no longer shows up on the IDE channels, no idea why. So I put one of my movies into my work laptop... and PowerDVD asked me if I wanted to change the region of my DVD player to Europe. Then I noticed that I can only changed the region three more times after this change.
What a great way to motivate use of Linux, where I don't have this problem.
Today I learned that the Wii is region locked also.
This sort of thing is why I don't buy DVDs or CDs. I'm sure Blu-Ray and friends will improve the region locking dramatically....

media mafia, dvd, linux

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