In Australia, it would be illegal, to restrict the sales of other region and multi region players, due to Trade practices act which forbids unfair or anti competitive acts. all it would take is a few days and a decent lawyer to get it repealed.
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/comact/browse/TOC TR.htm
The subject of this judgement was not whether a dvd is a movie or software, it is about Time Warner using its larger size to extort extra money from the movie rental stores. (ie not allowing video stores to rent out the cheaper DVDs, but selling them others DVDs with the same qualities for a greatly increased price)
In Australia it is against the law for a company to interfere with any retailers pricing schemes.
This is in order to encourage competition, and prevent price fixing, and also gives the same power to any individual that would be given to a company.
In Australia we have an Act to ensure the rights of all parties in any agreement are all an the same footing, and can be found here
To my knowlegde this exists nowhere else in the world, so it seems, once again that Australia is the fairest country in the world.
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In Australia, it would be illegal, to restrict the sales of other region and multi region players, due to Trade practices act which forbids unfair or anti competitive acts. all it would take is a few days and a decent lawyer to get it repealed. http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/comact/browse/TOC TR.htm
The subject of this judgement was not whether a dvd is a movie or software, it is about Time Warner using its larger size to extort extra money from the movie rental stores. (ie not allowing video stores to rent out the cheaper DVDs, but selling them others DVDs with the same qualities for a greatly increased price)
In Australia it is against the law for a company to interfere with any retailers pricing schemes. This is in order to encourage competition, and prevent price fixing, and also gives the same power to any individual that would be given to a company.
In Australia we have an Act to ensure the rights of all parties in any agreement are all an the same footing, and can be found here
To my knowlegde this exists nowhere else in the world, so it seems, once again that Australia is the fairest country in the world.