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Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by chris_wot on Friday October 04, 2013 @07:59AM (#6494814)
It's called geoblocking. The Australian Senate held hearings into it. Fun fact: I was looking to buy Cowboy Bebop and Star Trek: The Next Generation on iTunes. Not available, but definitely available in the U.S. App Store.
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by mmagin on Friday October 04, 2013 @06:27PM (#6498432)
Even before streaming, the media publishing industries have been into segmenting the world into different markets for the same product: For example: books separately published in the US and the UK, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks with region codes that prevent playing on the other region players (providing they're players which obey this flag.)
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by chris_wot on Friday October 04, 2013 @07:22PM (#6498685)
Time to disrupt these arseholes.
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM by curiousdannii on Friday October 04, 2013 @07:44PM (#6498757)
But unlike most other media there's no other way to purchase them. I can't buy DVDs of Kindle active content, I can't get it off ebay.

I guess they mustn't consider the international market worth the trouble of solving whatever legal issue is stopping them from selling them to other countries.