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Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (Critical Cultural Communication, 14)

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Description:A rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era"This content is not available in your country." At some point, most media consumers around the world have run into a message like this. Whether trying to watch a DVD purchased during a vacation abroad, play an imported Japanese video game, or listen to a Spotify library while traveling, we are constantly reminded of geography's imprint on digital culture. We are locked out.Despite utopian hopes of a borderless digital society, DVDs, video games, and streaming platforms include digital rights management mechanisms that block media access within certain territories. These technologies of "regional lockout" are meant first and foremost to keep the entertainment industries' global markets distinct. But they also frustrate consumers and place territories on a hierarchy of global media access. Drawing on extensive research of media-industry strategies, consumer and retailer practices, and media regulation, Locked Out explores regional lockout's consequences for media around the globe. Power and capital are at play when it comes to who can consume what content and who can be a cultural influence. Looking across digital technologies, industries, and national contexts, Locked Out argues that the practice of regional lockout has shaped and reinforced global hierarchies of geography and culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (Critical Cultural Communication, 14). To get started finding Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (Critical Cultural Communication, 14), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: A rare insight into how industry practices like regional restrictions have shaped global media culture in the digital era"This content is not available in your country." At some point, most media consumers around the world have run into a message like this. Whether trying to watch a DVD purchased during a vacation abroad, play an imported Japanese video game, or listen to a Spotify library while traveling, we are constantly reminded of geography's imprint on digital culture. We are locked out.Despite utopian hopes of a borderless digital society, DVDs, video games, and streaming platforms include digital rights management mechanisms that block media access within certain territories. These technologies of "regional lockout" are meant first and foremost to keep the entertainment industries' global markets distinct. But they also frustrate consumers and place territories on a hierarchy of global media access. Drawing on extensive research of media-industry strategies, consumer and retailer practices, and media regulation, Locked Out explores regional lockout's consequences for media around the globe. Power and capital are at play when it comes to who can consume what content and who can be a cultural influence. Looking across digital technologies, industries, and national contexts, Locked Out argues that the practice of regional lockout has shaped and reinforced global hierarchies of geography and culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (Critical Cultural Communication, 14). To get started finding Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (Critical Cultural Communication, 14), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Locked Out: Regional Restrictions in Digital Entertainment Culture (Critical Cultural Communication, 14)

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