By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026If not, the license terms required the DVD player to refuse to play your discs. Region coding is an "anti-feature," a technology developed at great expense *for which there is no market*. 50/ 324718
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026Sure, some DVD player owners who had never shopped abroad for a DVD didn't care about region coding. But for customers who bought a disc on vacation, or moved from one country to another: region coding was *terrible*. 51/ 41895
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026So there were customers who didn't care about region coding, and customers who hated region coding, but there were *zero* DVD player owners who *wanted* region coding. No DVD manufacturer could advertise that their products come with region coding. 52/ 21998
ÄlveKatt @alvekatt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Or for people who live in a country where not everything is released, or is released with some sensoring. I made sure to get a region free player so I could play imported anime. 010
Organ Heist @organ-heist.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026This event comes to mind www.theguardian.com/world/deadli...theguardian.comBarack Obama gives 25 classic American movies to Gordon BrownDeadline USA: No Godfather II or Rocky? Which movies are missing from Brown's gift? 001
Iñigo Alonso Fernández @inigoalonso.com · 26/08/2026That was me. And funnily enough, the movie DVD I bought in the US and brought back to Europe was Hackers (1995). Rude awakening indeed. 1252
