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I myself think that this whole regional restriction on purchasing is retarded. However, we have the copyright lobby to thank for that. (Ie, movie companies, book publishers, music labels, etc) The idea behind region locking sales (which is the same as region locking DVD's and the like) is to control sales on a regional level. Since prices and copyright laws vary from country to country, the companies that release this material are violently paranoid that you will "steal" their product and underprice them or some other horrible "atrocity" that will prevent them from fleecing you till you bleed.
It's also setup that way to prevent you from going to another country where prices are lower (say China for instance) because of economic or other reasons, and purchasing it cheaper. The items are cheaper there, or in some cases even allowed to be sold, for specific reasons. Over 90% of the time we have absolutely no idea why the prices and features and whatnot are different, but they are. So in the end, the only way that we'll get around this whole region locking issue is if the world all agrees to one unified price plan, and one unified copyright scheme.
Person, I want neither. All I want is the ability to buy from wherever I want at whatever price I want. If the companies get the world wide unified price and copyright scheme (which is what the ACTA treaty is attempting to do) they want, we're all screwed beyond mention. Well, more screwed than we are now anyways.
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