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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

So 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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

If there were two equivalent DVD players in the market, identical except that one had region coding and the other didn't, the "region-free" player would win. Region-coding is an anti-feature. 53/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

Anti-features aren't the only deliberate defects we find in DVD players. The consortium's hook IP licenses didn't just *require* anti-features, they also *banned* useful features...including recording. 54/

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Jonesy @therealbk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Philips DVP642 was the goat

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