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What's with this weird trend on HN lately of taking some random anecdote of an experience in a non-US country, then using that as well as a bunch of assumptions
by swebs 7y ago
What's with this weird trend on HN lately of taking some random anecdote of an experience in a non-US country, then using that as well as a bunch of assumptions to extrapolate how you think the US did things? Stores in the USA sold unlockable DVD players as well. Hell, we even had Divx DVD players that would play pirated movies off of CDs (which is why you often see old scene releases limited to 700mb).
- forgetfulusr 7y agoI can confirm, I still have a DivX DVD player although I think I smoked around it a little too much, messed up the laser. I guess it is popular to bash on the place DMCA comes from, although the US has people from everywhere, so if some other place has good circumvention, it will reach it(US) sooner or later.
- wil421 7y agoYea I had similar experiences in the US with burning CDs and electronic stores helping me. Some even told me better and cheaper ways to do it. If I went to Microcenter and wanted to build a plex server they would help me optimize it for sure.
- saagarjha 7y ago> taking some random anecdote…as well as a bunch of assumptions to extrapolate I don't think this is specific to Hacker News, or even a recent phenomenon…