Comment Re:Game of Thrones (Score 2) 106
6 years ago I moved from Canada to Spain. Should I have bought all new DVDs and Blu Rays when I did? And should I have bought them again when I came back last year? My favorite was the Blu Ray I bought from Amazon UK that had a US region lock so it refused to play in my Blu Ray player. The best fix? Rip it and stream it off my NAS.
And don't even get me started on the social aspect. I spent 5 years having people send me links to movies and trailers only to discover they are region locked and getting the same complaint when I sent links to my friends and this is still a problem now that I have friends in 10 different countries. And if I wanted to play online scrabble against my family? Not permitted. Europeans can only play against other Europeans and not anyone in North America.
Region coding is just plain evil and people hate it for more reasons than just not wanting to pay for things