Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol

Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 19, 2015 @11:51AM (#9075055)

I wonder how much of that we owe to the fact that people were finding ways around region locking, and that DVDs were also used for software distributions.

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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by sosborn on Thursday February 19, 2015 @12:19PM (#9075265)

I'm willing to bet that the number of people working around region locking was so small (in a financial sense) that it didn't matter.

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Re:Your App Is Not Better than an Open Protocol by alxndr on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:14PM (#9076194)

Don't Macs let you switch regions a limited number of times?

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