09-18-2005, 03:27 PM
The reason why media companies do not prosecute people who make mod chips is because Sony lost a court case here in australia. Sony had a type of region encoding on all of its PSX games and mod chips were made here so people could use the games they bought cheaper overseas and in duty-free. Sony took them to court and lost.
You are in region 2 which happens to have several hundred million more english speakers than in region 4 where I am from. Australia may look big on a map but there are only 19million people here. Your choice in media content is a lot larger than we get in region 4. Because of region encoding we miss out on a lot of US independent films as well as a large chunk of wonderful european cinema. Region encoding is anti-competitive behaviour and should be discouraged.
While I understand your concerns about government over-regulation in business, governments are the only entities that can bring about these changes - corporations are not going to suddenly develop a social conscience. e.g. McDonalds only started having "lighter" options on their menu because they were facing lawsuits from thousands of obese customers. (McDonalds is banned in Lawtonia). They didn't do it for their customers, they did it for their bottom line. This is why governments need to provide guidelines for businesses operating in their nation.
Lawtonia is pro-Free Trade and believes that region encoding on any media format to be anti-competitive and supports any action to remove barriers to the free flow of information.
You are in region 2 which happens to have several hundred million more english speakers than in region 4 where I am from. Australia may look big on a map but there are only 19million people here. Your choice in media content is a lot larger than we get in region 4. Because of region encoding we miss out on a lot of US independent films as well as a large chunk of wonderful european cinema. Region encoding is anti-competitive behaviour and should be discouraged.
While I understand your concerns about government over-regulation in business, governments are the only entities that can bring about these changes - corporations are not going to suddenly develop a social conscience. e.g. McDonalds only started having "lighter" options on their menu because they were facing lawsuits from thousands of obese customers. (McDonalds is banned in Lawtonia). They didn't do it for their customers, they did it for their bottom line. This is why governments need to provide guidelines for businesses operating in their nation.
Lawtonia is pro-Free Trade and believes that region encoding on any media format to be anti-competitive and supports any action to remove barriers to the free flow of information.