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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2295 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Eastern Europeans Tire of Being Sold Inferior Products

In the US, Gray market goods are exceedingly common. B&H Photo Video will actually give you a choice of buying gray market goods on their website. Fundamentally, this is a company buying stuff out of one market and selling it in another.

My wife asked me why on earth you could buy a DVD on Amazon in the United States that won't play on a DVD player bought on Amazon in the United States. I had to say "because the consumer electronics industry and the entertainment industry colluded to support windowing at the direct expense of consumers worldwide."

What's really stupid is these sorts of policies tend to punish the unresourceful. I had a region-free DVD player in college. It even had an HD15 out so I could plug it into my 100lb 3-eyed monster. You didn't need much of an Internet to buy DVD players out of China, even back when Clinton was president.