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Originally Posted by Azayzel
Regarding region-locked DVD's, I think this is still a throw-back to bygone days that should simply be abandoned. Why bother locking out sales of a DVD from potential buyers, online companies flourish with overseas markets so many region-locked DVD's end up becoming magically available on eBay with such impressive packaging you wouldn't know you were purchasing a bootleg. Yet the other region region-locking should be done away with, the counterfeiters can already remove this, so why bother? They, he powers that be, have vaguely lifted the lock by expanding/merging many regions with the latest iteration; i.e., BD-DVD's, so much of the world fall under the most common region.
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Yes, I agree with you.
The original purpose of region codes was, of course, because very often movies would - for example - be released in the US before they were released in the UK, and film studios didn't want US DVDs to be on sale in the UK while the movie was still on cinema release in this country. Now, though, most movies are released world-wide at the same time, and the justification has largely disappeared.