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    Rekrul, Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:11am

    If you're a German citizen visiting or living in the US and you stop in at Best Buy to pick up a CD or movie, no one checks your passport to see if you're legally entitled to make this purchase. Or, for that matter, anyone can order a physical CD from anywhere in the world and get it shipped to them.

    If the music industry had thought of it at the time, CDs would have region codes, just like DVDs.

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    profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:11am

    The artist has the copyright, has either signed a limited distribution deal for Austria, or has assigned rights to another distributor who isn't offering the product in the US yet.

    Oh, I understand HOW this sort of thing happens. What I still don't understand is WHY. Your answer doesn't really clear that part of it up. If you're going to sell music on the internet, which is not a physical part of any nation or locality, why do labels and distributors continue to pretend it is, dragging willing customers into the middle of their territorial pissing.

    All that happens is the money remains unspent and the soaking wet customers head to other sources.

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    Traveller800 (profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:14am

    shh...they might be listening

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    profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:15am

    I think he was replying to AC's assertion that CD stores are out of business due to piracy -- although admittedly it's not *that* easy to tell when your only reference is how far a comment is indented once there are a half dozen comments to another reply above it.

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    :Lobo Santo (profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:16am

    Translating from British English to American English is actually a far more delicate process than anybody gives the translators credit for...

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    profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:16am

    The owner was quite upfront about it being because of piracy.

    This one time a guy I knew said something. CLICK HERE FOR FULL REPORT. [pdf]

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    fiestachickens (profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:16am

    I get the legal issues, but think about it like this. The **AAs are spending inordinate amounts of money right now on new legislation (SOPA, PIPA, TPP, etc.).

    Why don't they spend that money on fixing the current broken system that would allow them to better meet their customers' demands?

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    Anonymous Coward, Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:16am

    Umm, your issue for a show isn't translation - it's the cost of rights.

    If the US company sells directly into the UK, they hurt the value of the rights to that show to be sold to a network to run in the UK. If everyone is buying TV shows online and not waiting to see them broadcast, then the broadcasters pay a lot less (because their viewership goes down). Whatever income is gained by the sales that would happen likely doesn't make up for what is lost by not getting the rigths fee from the network.

    Follow the money, you will understand.

    As for translation, I have a couple of Scottish movies here in English with subtitles in English so that this UK citizen can understand them. A translation from time to time might be appreciated!

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    :Lobo Santo (profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:18am

    Lobbying tends to yield an 1800% return on investments, that's why.

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    PlagueSD (profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:18am

    THIS is the #1 cause of piracy. Remove all the region encoding, and make everything available everywhere. All that crap was available before the internet made everything global. Now that there's a global economy, sell your products globally.

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    Traveller800 (profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:18am

    and how much does it cost to program region lock into websites or DVD's?

    The money they would get back from just not dong region lock and letting people buy the bloody things would far outweight the cost of making stuff universal.

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    profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:20am

    Thank god the scene cranked out a fan-dubbed version of Trainspotting. Until that point, I had no idea the movie was mostly about heroin and "Un-American football."

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    Traveller800 (profile), Mar 20th, 2012 @ 10:20am

    remember though...you're saying this to the MPAA and RIAA...Logic is not welcome on their planet

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