iirc, the BBC is a government/tax funded media organization. so it is less like US corporations limiting access by region, than it would be the US government limiting access to taxpayers.
which we also do quite a bit. I expect that eventually, the BBC will open up that program, but I also can see that opening it up will incur additional hard-money costs, which may not be in their charter or limited budget for this kind of thing. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > The US does this with ALL its content. > > People outside the US could buy the Kindle for the full price, but got > 100,000 LESS books in their store, AND had to pay a dollar EXTRA to buy > books for the kindle. > > Netflix Latin America has far less movies than the US version, but it costs > the same amount. > > Videogames are released sometimes a week earlier in the US than in the > Caribbean and Latin America sometimes, and at other times you can't even > buy htem because they are region locked. > > On Dell's website the US store has the latest processors. Stores for other > regions have older processors, but the systems cost the same amount as the > modern US systems. > > Hulu blocked VPN access to its entire library , to prevent people outside > the US from viewing its content. > > The growth of VPN services is driven by people in the rest of the world > trying to get around content blocks. > > What do you do on big screen phones and tablets? Many people want to watch > movies, read books etc. Now what do you do when all that content is blocked > from you, or the quality and availability is reduced if you are not in the > US? > > But US companies will gladly accept your money (and it usually costs you as > much as 35% more for the same product) , and then blame "licensing". > > So...someone in the US complaining about Region Locking? Heh heh ;-) > > On 21 October 2014 16:26, Michael Dinowitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > My take on the BBC and the farce they call news is well known here but I > > don't say much against them publicly unless they REALLY deserve it. I > just > > read that they created a Dr.Who game to teach kids how to program. OK, > that > > sounds like a good thing...if your in the UK. It seems any Dr.Who or > > learning goodness that they've created is for Kingdom members only. Us > > rebels in he US are exempt as are all you other undesirables. > > Yes, they have every right to restrict content in whatever way they want > > and I have every right to be irked by it. > > > > Doctor Who and the Dalek: 10-year-old tests BBC programming game ⢠The > > Register > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372815 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
