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One upon a time, movies were released in different countries at different times. This could be done because there was no easy way to copy and store away a movie. If you lived in Italy, you could wait up to two years before you saw a popular movie. Then two things happened: it became easy to copy and store movies; and everybody in the world suddenly became interconnected. The regional segregation has ended: the only ones to believe that it's still there are the dinosaurs from a past era.
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Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal"
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You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday June 09 2015, @07:19PM
People doing the end-run around region locking is a harbinger of things to come. That is, people will see through artificial scarcity and act accordingly. If we make the tools to do that universally available to each other, it will greatly erode centralized control of all kinds.