On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 11:39:45 +0900, Ryan Ginstrom  ...
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>"Brett Robson" <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote in message
>news:bqjd7402c64@drn.newsguy.com...
>> This international copyright shit really shits me. DVD region codes for
>> instance. You simply can't get most of the stuff I want to watch in Japan.
>Of
>> course I have a region free DVD player but it is lucky that we can get
>region
>> free players at all. Professional software such as language compilers are
>> practically unavailable in English and many of them have checks to stop
>them
>> being used OS, for instance they won't run on a Japanese system even
>though
>> there is no technical reason for it.
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>The most this has pissed me off was with the game Baldur's Gate. They got
>the thing localized to Japanese, and the Japanese seller made some deal with
>them that they would not allow the English version to operate on Japanese
>OSs. So they could gouge the f@ck out of their Japanese victims of course.
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>None of this was listed on the product box, or Website. I installed the
>thing ok on my system, but when I tried to run it, it just crashed. No
>message box, nothing. Tech/customer support was 0 help. Finally, after
>poking around on a fansite, I saw the restriction. I thought about demanding
>an exchange for the Japanese-language version, but I heard that the
>translation was pretty shit, so I just said screw it.
>
>If I was the unscrupulous sort, I would pirate every version of BlackIsle
>software I could get my p2p on, just out of spite. Luckily I'm too scrupled
>for that!
>


When I first came to Japan I knew I would have lots of free time so I brought
some professional software with me to develop some new skills only to find it
wouldn't work on my Japanese computer. I eventually got a pirated copy of an
English OS sent over.






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