The Null Device

Yes! the ACCC gets stuck into DVD zoning. DVD zoning, the quango argues, may breach the Trade Practices Act; a ruling may require all players sold in Australia to be multi-region (as in New Zealand). Now maybe all us Region 4 plebs can actually get stuff like The City of Lost Children before waiting for an exec at Sony to decide that there are enough Australians into quirky French art films to justify bringing it out in Region 4, without getting it FedExed from the States at extra expense.

Mind you, if such a ruling comes down, it may well be struck down by one of those "free trade" treaties that removes governments' rights to interfere with multinational corporations' profits.

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