In response to which many studios are shipping disks that will not play on multi-region or region-free players.
Bastards.
YO!!!! GET A CLUE, YOU FUCKING MPAA MORONS!!!! You aren't dealing solely with limited numbers of film prints any more. You have NO LEGITIMATE TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC OR LOGISTICAL REASON to need to stagger movie release dates worldwide. If you insist on restricting when and where DVDs of which movies are legally purchasable, PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BUY THEM LEGALLY ARE GOING TO PIRATE THEM if they give a fuck about the movie in the first place. DUH!!! This ISN'T FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE!!!
...to which folks over here who actually want to play films from elsewhere*1 respond to by buying another cheap player and hacking it to play the region of choice.
The whole region-coding model is just plain moronic.
*1 Assuming they havn't just decided to grab a playable copy off the torrents...
The MPAA is chained to a failing business model. They have no choices in what to pursue because they have no other options that they consider viable. They are just retreating further and further into shadow as the lights come on, like cockroaches, only wanting to work in the dark.
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Bastards.
YO!!!! GET A CLUE, YOU FUCKING MPAA MORONS!!!! You aren't dealing solely with limited numbers of film prints any more. You have NO LEGITIMATE TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC OR LOGISTICAL REASON to need to stagger movie release dates worldwide. If you insist on restricting when and where DVDs of which movies are legally purchasable, PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BUY THEM LEGALLY ARE GOING TO PIRATE THEM if they give a fuck about the movie in the first place. DUH!!! This ISN'T FUCKING ROCKET SCIENCE!!!
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...to which folks over here who actually want to play films from elsewhere*1 respond to by buying another cheap player and hacking it to play the region of choice.
The whole region-coding model is just plain moronic.
*1 Assuming they havn't just decided to grab a playable copy off the torrents...
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