Yep, happens far too often, it's even more annoying when a legal mp3 download is geo-restricted for a period of time. While in LA a couple of weeks ago, I saw

Yep, happens far too often, it's even more annoying when a legal mp3 download is geo-restricted for a period of time. While in LA a couple of weeks ago, I saw a fair bit of marketing for the MLB 2011 video game, published by 2K. (I was out there mainly to see the Dodgers play, so no surprise there.) When back in the UK I was unable to buy a hard copy or a digital download, so I torrented it. Last week I was at a big consumer event called Gadget Show Live (~100,000 visitors over 5 days), and one of the companies we had sold space to was 2K, promoting Duke Nukem. While chatting to one of the higher up guys in 2K I mentioned that I had been forced to pirate it, and he showed no surprise. He did tell me that they were expecting the game to arrive in the UK fairly soon. While it's not quite the same situation, as an MLB game is obviously going to find 99.99% of its audience outside the UK (in countries where they actually play baseball, such as the US), it still goes to show that, even when being distributed/marketed in different regions by the same company, sometimes the release dates won't match, not because they have a reason for some people having to wait, but simply because it's easier for them to deal with that way.