The President of Blockbuster has called for an end to region-coding in DVDs:
"I believe, in addition to the elimination of two-tier pricing, the studios should also make another significant strike against piracy with the elimination of regional coding," he said. "The extra time on windows created by regional coding is an opportunity that pirates exploit."
His reasoning is a little mealy-mouthed. This isn't "pirates exploiting opportunities," it's more like "customers routing around market-failures," as when the product they demand isn't offered for sale, or when they discover that they can buy the same product for half the money in a different part of the world.
(via /.)
