Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder2.hal-mli.net!news.mbo.net!news.tdl.com!news.he.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!129.250.175.17!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!drn From: Brett Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: english software Date: 2 Dec 2003 17:11:00 -0800 Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://newsguy.com] Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p-236.newsdawg.com X-Newsreader: Direct Read News 4.20 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:8692 On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 01:21:56 +0900, mr.sumo snr. ... > > >Outpost has always been pretty quick with my Gamecube orders too. If only >all the publishers would allow them to ship overseas. How does that work? Outpost has permission to ship overseas? Some soft can't be shipped OS? 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. . ---- "You don't bang it at 11:00pm but on the other hand, you don't play tribal house when you're headlining a tech-house party" DJ Mike McKenna talking shit