Locked out : regional restrictions in digital entertainment culture / Evan Elkins.

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"This content is not available in your country." At some point, most media consumers around the world have run into a message like this. Whether trying to watch a DVD purchased during a vacation abroad, play an imported Japanese video game, or listen to a Spotify library while traveling, we are cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Critical cultural communication.
Main Author: Elkins, Evan (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Series:Critical cultural communication.
Subjects:
Multimedia systems.
Interactive multimedia.
Digital media.
Entertainment computing.
Trade regulation.
Physical Description:ix, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : regional lockout as technology, distribution, and culture
  • DVD region codes : technical standards and geocultural status
  • Console games : how regional lockout shaped the video game industry
  • Video on demand : geoblocking, borders, and geocultural anxieties
  • Digital music : regional lockout and online listening
  • Region-free media : collecting and selling cultural status
  • Conclusion : the end of geoblocking? or, region-free media literacy.