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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Elkins, Evan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
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.