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Rich wrote:
>    Nonsense.  Region coding, encryption (e.g. CSS), expiring content
> (e.g. DivX) are examples that existed without pre-existing support from
> software vendors.  These and the other forms of restrictions all exist
> because the content providers require it.  Microsoft, Apple, real as
> well as CE vendors (e.g. Pioneer, Creative, Apple) support it only
> because it is required to even play the game.  Without it you can only
> sit on the outside and watch.
>

No region coding restrictions on my DVD player. Consumers here simply
wouldn't buy the boxes with region coding built in & thus manufacturers
dropped it.

NB they dropped it & yet they're not sitting on the outside & watching.

Adam

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