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Thinking about regional restrictions in history, I'm thinking there may well be older examples. Though those would be standards driven in many ways. As from a
by Zenst 4y ago
Thinking about regional restrictions in history, I'm thinking there may well be older examples. Though those would be standards driven in many ways. As from a manufacturers driven aspect, I feel there may well be earlier examples given how some companies would sell sales rights for other regions to control, then limits to prevent grey-market products would certainly of been something addressed in the past. That said, I'm pondering if IBM had some level of restrictions if only to compartmentalise their sales regions.
As an aside in respect of regional restrictions in history, then the era prior to railway time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_time
would certainly see some regional locking in a way as local time varied.
Then the whole utility market, surely beyond country variations has some aspect of restrictions.
- bombcar 4y agoRailways had some "region locking" themselves, as the gauges could vary - there's still a few places in the world where the trains change gauge when crossing a border. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEvt2lSPLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBEvt2lSPLc
- SllX 4y agoOr where you just have to change trains within the same country within the same agency within the same region. https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2018/news20180525 https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2018/news20180525
- Melatonic 4y agoSome of the older examples though are not region locking just for region locking reasons - it is just different standards that are not compatible. Intentional locking (without another technical justification) seems like a totally different ballgame.