nikki wonders who it was who was wondering about amazon's region restricted stuff for mp3s
derwin
I saw one where it was region restricted
nikki
well, I'm pretty confident now that it's linked to the country the card you pay with is from
because it just told me I couldn't buy something on amazon.de because I'm (apparently) not in germany
which is news to me, I thought I was :P
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CallerNo6
nikki, does that count as region-restriction of the content? or do they simply not want to deal with foreign banks?
nikki
I'm pretty sure it's region restricted. I accidentally bought an mp3 from amazon.com once :P
and they're happy to take money from my card for everything else I buy
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th1rtyf0ur
there's a difference, though, between "won't sell to X country" and "won't play in X country"
nikki
what does playing have to do with it?
my cds play everywhere, that doesn't make them worldwide releases :P
kepstin_: what about it?
th1rtyf0ur
well, like DVDs & BluRays are region-restricted in that they won't play unless they're on a player in that region. there's really no such thing for MP3s
nikki
oh. people actually have to worry about that? XD
kepstin_
nikki: for some reason, with my browser settings, the font is approximately 1mm tall.
making it rather hard to read :)
kepstin_ notes that dvd region-locking is a non-issue, since you can work around it in software when you play them on a computer with a wrong-region drive.
th1rtyf0ur
true, but not on a standalone (non-computer) player
nikki
anyway, we don't track that
kepstin_
of course, doing that is technically breaking the law in certain countries :)
th1rtyf0ur
(console-based) video games are the same. very annoying
nikki
maybe one day we will, but right now those are a tiny fraction of the releases
th1rtyf0ur
just 'cause I live in Japan doesn't mean I want to play Final Fantasy in Japanese.. it'd take me 600 hours instead of the usual 100. XD
nikki
kepstin_: oh, right. well, I have a minimum font size set so I have no idea :D
kepstin_ notes that all of the music video dvds that have come with japanese singles that he owns have been, as far as he can tell, unencrypted and region-free.
haha, I played shenmue in japanese once
"played"
th1rtyf0ur
true- a lot of the "region 2" music DVDs aren't actually restricted
nikki
it was more like "*text rushes past* what? what!? what am I doing!? D:"
CallerNo6
I shouldn't have said "region restricted" maybe. I meant, not-for-sale-in-other-regions of course.
kepstin_
and they also tend to have uncompressed (lpcm 16bit 48khz) audio, too :)
th1rtyf0ur
yeah, just nit-picking terminology :)
nikki
pedant :P
th1rtyf0ur
heh
CallerNo6
good distinction, point taken
th1rtyf0ur
i still think it's ridiculous in this day & age to say "what, you live in another country? NO I WON'T TAKE YOUR MONEY FOR THIS THING U CAN'T HAVE IT"
nikki
it always was pretty ridiculous :P
th1rtyf0ur
"You have to buy this other version of the same thing that'll come out 3 months from now & be twice as expensive."
CallerNo6
licensing agreements and artificial scarcity for fun and profit
th1rtyf0ur
exactly.
CallerNo6
mostly fun, of course
th1rtyf0ur
like diamonds! lol
nikki
diamonds are kinda boring
kepstin_
... as far as I can tell, this release came with a total of 4 possible front covers, as well as a reversible tray/back/spine thing.
so 4 possible front covers, 2 possible back covers :/
nikki
four covers in the release, or a different cover depending on which you buy?
kepstin_
four covers in a single release
nikki
ah
kepstin_
I guess I just put the default one as the frontiest.
ianmcorvidae
that's what's conventionially done for that, I think
for small values of convention given how rare, but :P
nikki
that's what I've done
I mean, you can also put the booklet back in the case the wrong way, but that's not the front of the release really XD
kepstin_
the back/spine/tray thing on this is kind of weird tho, because it has all of legal stuff duplicated on both sides
nikki wonders if opera 16 will actually open on here
just switches out the main picture, otherwise both sides are the same
kepstin_ gets to work cleaning up the scans and uploading them :
nikki
the caa is down though
and no, still doesn't run. stupid piece of shit
kepstin_
bah, caa down?
nikki
yes, like I said :P
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kepstin_
wow, really down.
th1rtyf0ur
should there be multiple Work entries for a [traditional] song? There's 4 "Hava Nagila"s...
CallerNo7
derwin, I might tag along with Adam to a IA Friday Open Lunch. If I do, should I ping you?
derwin
adam?
oh yeah
CallerNo7: yes, do, I'll work from home and join you
CallerNo7
Cool, might happen in mid-August.
I want to tape a "kick me" sign on the back of the CAA server
