The keyword being:

Region Control. The EU says Nintendo can’t do it. I just wish I had the URL to the actual decision.

It is very similar to the DVD RPC mechanism. This is going in my thesis. I’m blogging for a degree. Yay!

You gotta love the timing with Balmer whining about Australia’s law on chipping the XBox (they have a similar law for DVD players (and I think I read about Finland having something similar. I should have written that down (see, that’s oe reason why I wanted to start writing stuff down)))

Anyways, it’s also at LawMeme.

[via NetNewsWire, really…]