Locked Out : Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture /
"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, w...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.