jt wrote:I figured. Shame they couldn't find a way around it though, ship the films from the Caymans or something.
Doesn't matter. If let's say in the UK territory someone buys their VENGEANCE IS MINE or ONIBABA directly from something that could be corporately construed as their own retailing operation, Nick could sick a fuckin lawyer on them faster than you could sneeze the word TORT thru your teeth. For stealing their business and bleeding the MoC investment. Companies pay lots of money to acquire that pesky thing called distribution rights.. and even though the violations go both ways thru third party retailers (kind of like the way the US & USSR fought each other by proxy by third party war retailers of north & south Vietnam or Korea... the reason places like DVD Planet get such low pricing wholesale.. it's CC's back door into europe/world), if the companies sold
directly to outside markets... well then it'd mean that distribution rights were ethereal and canceled, and the folks who'd get really pissed would be the
original copyright holders... because they could no longer sell those rights
over and over again in a zillion different territories. For the time being I think regions are a semi-good thing. It'd be one thing if every disc was from CC or MoC, and they could sklap their products on shelves across the globe; but it's really terrible as in the case of Riefenstahl in R1... her OLYMPIA and BLUE LIGHT are locked into a distribution deal in awful editions and you can at least get slightly better editions elsewhere. Imagine if they could acquire the global rights and there was no alternative edition? It'd be awful. Imagine there waqs no alternative to all those vomitous Facets??