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The reality of modern tech (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 8 months ago by Interstellar_1@pawb.social to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Been this way with every new tech I reckon. See also DVD burners and DRM/regional codes.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, I find it funny that people don't remember DVD DRM. I guess it wasn't noticeable to Americans, but you move from Latvia to the UK and suddenly all your movies are duds. You can at least use a VPN today to circumvent this bull shit in many cases, no such luck back then.

P.S. What was even worse for people living in xUSSR countries is that part of DVDs came from Russia (region 5) and part came from Europe (zone 2, because many xUSSR countries were assigned zone 2). The same was true for DVD players. So it was always a puzzle what to buy. Fuck this shit.