How Does Region Locking Work?
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- Region locking - when a stream or disc only works in a certain part of the world - is super-common and super-annoying. Why and how is it implemented?
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You know where content isn't region locked? Pirate sites. As long as region-locking exists, so will piracy in the regions which are locked out.
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who cares about region locking when you can use utorrent
The Big Boy ewwwww. uTorrent.
qbittorrent ftw
Rattacko that or Tixati
The best part for me are those fucking unskippable useless "anti-piracy" messages you get on every blu ray you buy. Because I just paid 30 bucks for a movie disc only to have fucking messages from the FBI threatening me for up to a minute before playing like I just pirated the thing.
You know who doesn't get any of those fucking warnings? The pirates themselves. So unless they are trying to convince me to pirate content instead I don't see the reasoning behind not making those messages skippable at the very least.
Not sure if you're stupid or just a Bernie supporter.
When i get those messages i record the movie and upload it to my drive for my friends to watch just to spite them.
David Goldberg jk i dont pay for movies
I don't know if any other anime does this but the VA's for Abenobashi speak during the warnings. Kinda amusing.
Well, just ignore them Lulu.
Fun Fact: in the early 2000s, when Region Free DVD players were starting to appear, companies in America decided to create DVDs which were called "Region Code Enhanced". These Region 1 DVDs couldn't be played on Region Free players, only at Region 1 players. This however, could be broken easily, simply by placing a Region 1 (normal) DVD to the machine for some seconds, removing it, placing the Enhanced disc and it would play normally. The RCE plan collapsed and was abandoned.
neat fact yoh
Why would you decide not to plug TunnelBear for this video I mean come on
KLM Well, with Netflix and others getting smart with blocking vpns, and he touched on the subject, I don't see tunelbear going for it lol
He totally did it on purpose.
Well, I do have TunnelBear (grizzly) and it sucks... I guess its only for me, as the closest VPN for them is pretty far away, so basically I get 10% of my internet speeds (form 100/100Mbit to 10/10Mbit max)... Also, I tried Netflix and Hulu... both of them were blocking TunnelBear VPN's from USA that I tried...
That's the problem with "big" VPN companies- they get known. Its good and bad- good b/c more customers but bad b/c now region locked sites know to look out for them.
If I may offer a suggestion, this site is pretty much the VPN wiki. Tells you about different kinds and what kind you should get to suit your needs. Also, it has a pretty nice spreadsheet thing that lists and compares a bunch of VPN providers (most small-mid sized providers but it has some big names in there as well).
Hopefully it helps you out if you're looking to get a better VPN :)
thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/
Lucious Or you can just rent a cheap dedicated server and use that as your VPN...
Why wasn't there a tunnel bear ad at the end? :(
Matthew Kessler I thought that was the only reason they were doing this
Because Tunnel Bear don't want to say you can use it to do this!! Even though we all know it, they want to be known for the politically correct things - "TunnelBear, the gorgeous VPN app that wants to bring online privacy to everyone." or "TunnelBear is an elegant, easy mobile VPN that keeps you safe." NOT this is a great way around things certain companies/governments don't want you to be able too..
because they were using Audible as a demonstration of region locked content.
Maybe to many content creators knows about tunnel bears tunnel address (IP) and case cave-ins? ;P
IKR! (I know RIGHT!)
Regional Blocking, this is why Piracy was born
No, pirated media is region free. Region blocking does increase piracy. Look at countries like Australia.
Let's see, you want to get something like a game or movie online but you can't because they blocked that web site for your country and they refuse to ship them to you and when they agree it's they charge more than what you actually need to pay for, what other choice do you have? sometimes VPN is not the solution
People like you will never understand the role of piracy and i'm not gonna even try to explain it, enjoy your sunshine and roses on the beach bro
Have to feel bad for KamekoBruns, they were clearly raised to believe that legal/illegal is the same as right/wrong.
This guy...
Region locking isn't a thing when you pirate.
avast me harty, today yee be sailing the pirate bay, arrgh torrents ahoy ! thar she downloads §
hi, do you remember me?
i often lend stuff from my pal tom orrent.
Yeah they tell you not to Pirate but then region lock things... What do they expect you to do? Haha.
I rather buy a bluray instead of waiting almost a week for it to download with this slow ass internet here
Region locking is the main reason why I pirate, why should that prevent it?
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if you're talking about why streaming services region locks content it's mostly a question of the content creators suing them if they don't.
Jeppe Sørensen
The problem is more the content creators still living in Medieval Times and thinking there is *ANY* valid reason for, or any type of effectiveness to, Region Locking content in the Internet Age in the first place.
kuu I would feel guilty when not giving a multi billion industry 1 dollar cent if not allowed. :sad :sarcasm
Its not to prevent piracy, its to prevent the owner/publishing house/whatever from suing for unlicensed distribution.
There's also one other reason Linus missed. In some regions the content might be priced lower or be gotten sooner, so people might choose to use those services or import instead.
Region-lock, the biggest "fuck you" in existence.
true, that's why i dislike the wii u, i respect ps4 & x1 for dropping it
The PS3 wasn't region locked.
Bigger than Trump? Really? Wow...
DId the PS3 play DVD's? I have never owned one...maybe I should. Hmm...
G Henrickson Yes it did.
I find this hilarious. Content creators try to defeat piracy, yet not only do they not offer any benefits, all they offer is drawbacks. And that they charge you for.
Netflix blocks VPNs
Netflix USA has a bigger library than Netflix AU
Netflix AU has shit content yet we cant watch what the USA netflix has despite it being the same company
Why?
Licensing
IIGrayfoxII fuck licesing i want to watch anime in thailand
why?
Evil, pure evil
You ever notice how every single person who's against piracy is American? Funny that
Ugh so stupid. Even weirder, Better Call Saul comes out a year late in many countries. Make us wait for no reason.
Tunnelbear better be the sponsor
Yea.
+Nicholas Pateldeleon :T
The segway woulda been so smooth it'd make professional football players in their cleats fall like people driving on an ice hockey ring
i'm glad modern consoles dropped the Region locking in favor of region free, now i can play all my japanese imports out of the box on my ps4, beleive it used to be very hard on ps2/ps3 era those machines weren't import friendly especially stock retail ps2
Tchitchouan Inouane except for Nintendo… f*cking Nintendo. Ah well, more reason to hack the console.
***** i know fucking nintendo always had their lockout policy since the nes remember the wii how they said it doesn't play DVDs in 2007 were proved liars when a mod enabled it and yet the wii u is still region locked ,i suspect nx will be too "sigh" smh
Tchitchouan Inouane they have claimed it will be region free, but I will hold my judgment until it's actually released (or even revealed at that), it's time for Nintendo to join the modern world and stop with these antiquated concepts.
PS3 didn't have region lock (unless the very first ones did, the newer ones do not). PS1 and PS2 WERE region locked however there was a workaround where you could "chip" your device to play from any region.
Finally, I think Nintendo still uses region lock on its consoles
***** i agree, when will they even reveal it, they're targeting a march 2017 release and we don't even know how it looks what are its spec or hardware features nor innovation, c'mon
I wonder if content creators and the third party guys know that it is because of the current region locking that there is rampant pirating
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I don't think they really thought this through, i'm in the UK but can't watch a movie on Netflix since it is US only, so therefore I will be inclined (as I have done) to pirate it instead of using their services. Not very clever...
You'd think they would want people's money...
Personally, I'd try VPN's first as I don't like to potentially expose my computer to viruses that might be part of the download.
***** Netflix is pretty good at blocking VPNs, unless you own a private one your VPN probably won't work.
ComputersAreRealCool and most Netflix series I've wanted to watch can be pirates anyways.
Clin9289 well often a file that is being seeded and had a lot of leechers is a good sign that a file doesn't have viruses, And even then the comments will often tell u if it has a virus or whatever in it.
ComputersAreRealCool Hmm, a friend of mine told me a while ago that Netflix had said that they had wanted to block VPN's before, but that they never followed through. I guess they have now.
Narwhal Nachos Something to look out for then. I still wouldn't feel comfortable doing it, but yeah.
01:50 ... or trying to listen some music on CZcams in Germany :-( ...
NanobyteOnline GEMA is the worst.
sharktrail ` north korea?
bruh Sony Indonesia blocked an Indonesian song...in Indonesia.
Krzysztof Korzeniewski "You've rekted Poland", yes because im 27 and have so much todo with the past of germany ... you are smart as fuck
+NanobyteOnline
Sorry Angela M. decided that your eyes\ears are too sensitive to see\hear Conchita Wurst. ;-)
if you want my money dont make it hard for me to by your stuff
p.s. audible want my credit card details for a free trial... fuck you audibile
yep thats why i dont even try free trials anymore because they try to bullshit you. just make it shit easy and stuff i dont have to worry about and im waaaayyyyy more likely to give them money
👍🏿👍🏿
Get a prepaid Creditcard and use the trials, or even better random prepaid Card generator
I still don't get what the purpose of region-locking is though
there is no region locking on 4k blu-rays, plus it's to stop something that isn't meant to be available in your country from being played on your hardware.
It's old hat marketing that was the best profitable practise for decades and is now outdated and obsolete.
In the 70s, 80s, 90s if a movie is designed to be a big summer blockbuster, they will release it in summer in each location to maximise on box office sales. Since VHS/DVD sales would follow box office release less than a year later, this could result in the VHS release in one country being earlier than the box office release in another market.
It's what they did for decades and it worked. The film and music industries are so adverse to the reality that is new technology, so instead of figure out an alternative, they will continue to enforce copyright claims on content, harass uploaders, refuse to sell to otther countries, in an attempt to keep their old structure running.
Then when the later release in another country is a total flop (because everyone's already seen it) they will blame piracy, not their outdated, unrealistic and silly business model that relies on the internet not existing, on their lack of profits.
@Captain SparkleFuck Scam US and angry us.
Two reasons.
1: Capital gains. Because if you freely distribute it world wide, it can be harder to track the market. So having divisions and regions is one way to do it.
2: Censorship. Interms of what movies is approved for certain regions or not.
It's interesting that region locking on disks seems to be slowly fading away with each generation. DVD had a whopping 6 regions, Blu-ray reduced it down to 3 and UHD Blu-ray has no region locking! Even the media companies seem to slowly realizing that region-locking is a pretty shitty practice.
I died when i saw the "good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies" thing lmao
disliked cuz no tunnlebear when it would have been perfect.
Have to agree! ... Not even a Joke! ... .Jeez Linus!!! What's wrong with you?!?!
Like every other comment about this, advertising a VPN would be stupid because providers would just start blocking that VPNs IPs (if they aren't doing that already). "TunnelBear is a grea-BLOCKED".
0:50 why in the world are English speaking countries not all in the same region for blu-rays?
because that would be too logical. but it's probably down the technology the tvs used
Different analog outputs which brokethrough technology at that time, europeans used a different system from the states which invented their own thing
It’s so frustrating that when some people from Italy move to USA and they get a NTSC DVD, Italian isn’t an option on NTSC usually, and I feel bad for them because they deal with Region locking
Exactly. I might be an odd one out, but sometimes I like watching films originally made in English that have been dubbed into another language. And NTSC NA DVDs are usually stuck with 1, 2 or 3 language tracks that consist of either English, Canadian French and/or Spanish.
I've come across some DVDs that only offer English, some that offer only English and Spanish or English and French and some that have all 3, but a majority include all 3.
I've come across at least 2 different North American BluRays that have multiple language tracks, and those are We're Back A Dinosaur's Story and I believe an early release of the first Harry Potter movie, I may have seen later releases only include English, Spanish and French but don't quote me on that.
My mum bought one of those DVD player with no region locking so I have no problems playing my US copy of Valentine's Day on my region 3 DVD player.
In my opinion, Indian DVDs & Blu-ray discs (not talking about pirated ones) have usually never had any region locking issues; DVDs are usually either region-free or combine several codes (usually Regions 1, 2, 4 and 5), along with being NTSC or PAL. This is probably due to the ubiquitous Indian diaspora around the world; hence in order to cater to them, home media from their native country is made easily accessible abroad. However, since a lot of North American home media is region-locked, the vice-versa does not generally work in India.
It started in the US with US companies getting less taxes on exports that are not sold in the US. I like movies from English speaking countries, because I speak English, but it gets in the way of being able to play those movies, unless I only get DVDs and play them on Linux. Then regional locking doesn't apply.
Kudos that he actually addressed digital rights management in the modern era i.e. IP range banning.
meanwhile in Australia it is completely legal to circumvent region locking :)
3ds is region locked
Homebrew and CFW gets you around that pretty easily.
Joash Parker
While here in Canada, it isn't.
@@denelson83 That's fucking bullshit! This is why I fucking do not like Western companies, more concerned with lobbyists rather than making good fucking products and services. So instead of competing, they increase the bar to compete to keep competitors out. Rather than doing their damn job by making good content.
@@MaoRatto They are most concerned with making as much money as possible. Everything a big corporation does is entirely in the pursuit of that one goal.
One of the few channels I listen to the ads because they are hilarious! :-) Keep it up!
really been enjoying this series, thanks imparting knowledge bro
And then they wonder why torrenting is so big. Smh
Angry at region locking since I stepped on the rakes twice now. Bought a phone in a local store and gave it to a cousin who lives in another region. It didn't work when he came to his homeland. He took it to original Samsung centre which charged 50 euros just to take the region lock off. The second time, bought a smartphone to my brother and sent it to his region. Guess what... The seller doesn't provide any warranty despite that a full price was paid with no tie to any single carrier. My question to whoever invented the region lock is, can this be taken down for smartphones? Enraged by this.
Very well the best Linus video thus far. I like what you did there. That was very clever.
It doesn't - And when it does, you start pirating.
"... good luck with that" - I legit laughed out loud.
Who else saw the Hulu hate going on at 2:20 (damn right though...)
You know what I have to say about region locking? FUCK THAT SHIT
Haha, I think Tunnel Bear would have been a good ad spot for this episode.
region locking should end!
Both points don't make sense. If there are technological barriers, then by all means, put region labels on devices, but don't go out of the way to stop people from watching movies. As for copyright, for one, wouldn't I need to buy the movie/game in the region it was released, thus ensuring the makers get their cuts? And if I am unable to view the movie legally, isn't that MORE of a reason to pirate it?
Tiktok seems to have some formal region locking. Sometimes I'll come across a video with no sound and if you click on the audio button of the video it will say sound not available in your country. However if that content creator has video saving enabled if you save the video to your phone you will get the original audio.
Best ending add so far love it.
I always thought the original creators WANTED a show to be viewable from around the world, but the consumer's government is preventing it.
This why modding systems like the 3DS is so useful.
How to win friends and influence people is actually a fantastic book! It teaches you how interactions with other people can be improved through various means and methods. Speaking of which, I don't believe Linus needs this after watching the "What is it like to work for Linus" video.
Plus it's a book, so no region locking! (Unless you're locked out by the language)
I recall there being a region 7 and a region 8 when I read the wiki article several years back. One of them had to deal exclusively with airlines/cruiseships
lol that makes sense and is also very dumb
Why a book spot and not one for tunnelbear? It would fit better with the video
Did anyone notice the Hulu logo in the background at 2:15?
Thank You So Much for the Insightful Tutorial & for Sharing! Stay Safe & World Peace! 🌍🌷🕊 p.s. Wish your Sharing comes in with the Picture~In~Picture feature instead of just a forgettable Link! 🕯
On my ANCIENT DVD/Audio System combo, it has 3 region-lock globes on the top, with the numbers 1,2, and 3. I'd assume this means it can play DVDs from those 3 regions?
Linus fire the sound editor on these videos XD The latest ones all have sound errors ffs :P
Hi, I have a Playstation 4 from Hong Kong ... when I want to create a PSN account, it just lets me create in Chinese ... I know it's a region block but how can I solve this problem? Thank you
Make a fake Google account somewhere in America then create a PlayStation account this should solve your problem if it doesn't work then I don't know how to fix it Google it I bring it to the black market in Hk
There is also region block in Bangladesh
Was hoping on a more detailed description of how the region locking works
I.e. The byte at the end of the disc that has the ones and zeros denoting the region, that and iirc region 7 is used for travel entertainment (cruise ships and planes)
I remember I once had a DVD from Region 2 (Europe, I believe...), and while Windows Media Player gave me the runaround at the time with that ever so joyful prompt to change the disk drive region, I found that I could play the DVD with VLC without any issues and without changing the drive region...
I feel a TunnelBear ad incoming :D
WHAT?! AUDIBLE?! WTF?!
Lord "bear" me strength.
nope
A Tunnelbear ad would fit better in this video.
Me when something i wanna watch or play is locked in my country : *laughs in piracy*
I purchased a DVD boxset some years back (can't remember what) and was initially disappointed when I discovered it was region locked. But after some research I found a couple websites claiming many DVD players had the ability to change the region with a certain input of button presses on the remote. I know, bullsh?t.....but what could it hurt?
After looking up my DVD player model and punching in the code provided, an extremely plain menu popped up that had a list of regions to pick from and the option to select all (that's what I chose). I was able to unlock both of our DVD players plus a portable one, and even a couple friend's DVD players as well. Does anyone remember doing this?
I hate how I pay the same as an American customer for my Netflix subscription and only get half the library.
That's why I won't get Netflix.
what l did was buy a rom 1 drive whice is always reigon unlocked and took its firmware chip and soldered it to my rom 2 in front of the main chip which changes the main chip to be the rom 2 chip and the orignal chip being the secondary and POOF youve got a reigon unlocked bluray drive
That subtle ass hulu at 2:16 😂😂😂
but why are music cds, audio cassettes, vinyl or all the other audio formats not region coded? early releases, newest - never mattered
when you use vlc media player you don't need to worry about region locking i can watch us dvd's in the eu with it
Clever!
Companies don't want my money I guess. This makes it hard to be a movie collector. Piracy isn't enough. I just get to see the movie that way but its lame. Region locking is so stupid.
Yes you are so right 👍🏻 like Paul Hogan said, what's the matter with you dopey 🗽. number 1 was for the money, & number 2 just got dumped from a guy who jumped out the window and Paul Hogan said I haven't got all day would you hurry up then. Couldn't agree with u more about region lock rights reserved privacy terms, even when skippy's got a shotgun, 😂 for shooting shooters I guess they need a licence for that to pretty illegal that Skippy. Co's u got to have rights for a firearm 😂 In Skippy's Situation🤣, now I see where they got the idea for Def Leppard shoot shotgun🇺🇸🌎 😂🤣.
Wow the video was released after I messed up with region lock stuff.
Finally a video to answer my questions in a nice shell.
I was always agisnt such thging when I learned that even with this methods people still exploit different markets to seel stuff they aren't allowed to.
Funny I always considered NTSC inferior to PAL-M
Thought this video was advertised by a VPN company.
Another reason for this is different age restrictions in different countries. Germany for example has VERY strict rules on gore and what not, and movies are sometimes released in cut versions here. "No problem, I'll just watch the original from America!"? - No, you won't. You might try the British one though...
You could just unlock your DVD player for every region, that's what I did.
That's the way early non brand players worked. The players buttons were pushed in a sequence to select a particular region.
Soccer? It is FOOTBALL! ;)
Sir Gentleman He's American.
Cut him some slack.
@Nicholas Bonnie Realized it right after commenting.
Unfortunately CZcams on Android doesn't allow editing comments, so I just left it there.
why did i get this as a new upload from techquickie i have already seen this one twice
10PM: Just 1 more video!
3M: How Does Region Locking Work?
This would have been a good ad spot for Tunnel Bear ;3
Shots fired at Hulu
Amusing that Audible is the advert, i've wanted to listen to so many books that are region locked by them.
1:45 My love for you is complete Linus.
2:22 Notice the name drop for hulu
Lol. Screw hulu
you can un region lock a dvd player very easily.
it just requires a password
www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks
here is a link to a bunch of the region codes
aaronplayzgamez thank you sir that was helpful
2:18 Hulu in the lower right lol
Don't know what date this Vid was uploaded BUT I've been using Region FREE bluray player
for about 2 1/2 years.Here in Australia I can view "Hard to find " bluray and DVD's titles available mostly from the U.S which is great.
Loved the South Park Timecop joke. Doubt many people will get it.
Haha, I noticed it too :D It's the Walmart episode right?
Basically whole video: We big corporations are so fucking hungry for money you cant buy our cheaper stuff wich is sold in a differend country
I think it's more like: We big companies would rather not allow you to have our content than let you buy it and give money to a pocket that's not ours.
PS: this comment is underrated.
Any advice on getting around region locked discs and players?
... And I wish them luck with that...
Linus nailed it.
region locking is anti consumer
0:40
How could he make that mistake when he can CLEARLY see 6 giant numbers next to him
Man, seriously? An Audible.com add? And not a Tunnel Bear add?
Such a missed opportunity dude
so confident with the position of everything. Remember when the subscribe and description was on ->>> that side. I bet youtube will change that again just to screw with people. 5:28
I have a vpn but region locking has nothing to do whit it 😏
jholotan best yes it does don't be an idiot if your vpn doesn't help with region locking that means your vpn server is in the same area as you
Aks Walia it actually is but that wasn't my point
Aks Walia the joke flew waaaay over your head, didn’t it
i'm thinking of a number between 1 and 200, can you guess which one?
26
69
omg.... it was 26 wasn't it?
Lutyano Alves i can't be bothered to reply to every wrong answer.
Bayrisch Schaf that guess was heavily expected.
I wasn't paying attention, and I was like, "For once, Linus, I'll listen to your sponsor.
Wait-how long has this been?
You can unlock your DVD player with a code for example up down left left etc you just have to look it up
Region locking should be illegal because it's so annoying
i will explain it in an easy way: Capitalism.
The first time I realised this I got soul eater on dvd for Christmas, It worked 3 times on my laptop then stopped and I found out why. now I always look at the regions but might try a region free DVD player as well.
You can get a multi region DVD player for almost the same price as a regular one. I've had one for years, it's great.
Argh, I'd so make love to Linus. Watching him hurts me so much because he isn't here, in my life, in my bed. ❤️ 😭
It's what we're all secretly thinking, man. It's hard!
Lee Vuitton uhh..
Wow, that got really weird really fast , lol 😂😛
First!
Periodic Table Of Videos congrats :)
nope
If you buy DVD or Bluray from country you're in, it's no problem. The best way to get around it, if it is a problem, is to use a non well known brand player. As they are all-zone players. The chips in these are all-zoned and at the start, player buttons were pushed to select a certain zone.
Region locking can sometimes backfire when a person's DVD player came from abroad. My first DVD player was a U.S. model PS2 system which is R1 but I'm from the Philippines where most original DVD are R3 and won't work forcing me to buy pirated DVD movies because I have no choice. When DVD format was new a stand alone DVD player was more expensive than a PS2 system that using a PS2 system as a DVD player was not uncommon.
Linus said soccer. Unsubscribed
Speaking of VPNs:
TUNNELBREAR IS THE EASY TO USE VPN SERVICE THAT LETS YOU BROWSE THE WEB AS IF YOU WERE IN ONE OF TWENTY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES...
Who else expected this?
can you guys please do a review of the best region free blurays for 2020?
Question if a dvd shows that it has regions 1, 2, & 4 on it. Is it a bootleg?