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Please sign here and help share this around on Facebook, Twitter, other sites, and in media: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...ftware-and-internet-traffic-handling/XGzyvcVJ
Upvote on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/16qmss/white_house_petition_ban_regionlocking/
Also, be sure to follow @EndRegionLock on Twitter.
Now for the UK! http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44721
Ban the use of region-locking in games, movies, software, and Internet traffic handling.
We live in a globally-interconnected, digital society. Information about products and services available in other countries can be easily accessed, generating demand. However, the implementation of region locks prevents consumers from exercising their right to choose to import digital goods and services from abroad, whether in the form of physical media or purely as data.
Preventing the sales of books across borders would be absurd, yet this happens regularly with digital media. Neither the assumption of consumers' language abilities nor the lack of coordinated international publishing should strip consumers of their right to choose their purchases. Electronic devices designed to run or display certain types of media ought not to intentionally refuse to function, and regulation is needed.
100 signatures @ ~3:00 am EST 1/17
200 signatures @ ~5:30 am EST 1/17
300 signatures @ ~9:00 am EST 1/17
400 signatures @ ~10:20 am EST 1/17
500 signatures @ ~11:40 am EST 1/17
600 signatures @ ~1:00 pm EST 1/17
1000 signatures @ ~7:45 pm EST 1/17
1100 signatures @ ~8:25 pm EST 1/17
1200 signatures @ ~9:15 pm EST 1/17
1300 signatures @ ~10:30 pm EST 1/17
1400 signatures @ ~11:30 pm EST 1/17
1500 signatures @ ~1:00 am EST 1/18
1600 signatures @ ~3:30 am EST 1/18
1700 signatures @ ~8:00 am EST 1/18
1800 signatures @ ~10:30 am EST 1/18
1900 signatures @ ~1:00 pm EST 1/18
2200 signatures @ ~10:40 pm EST 1/18
2300 signatures @ ~4:00 am EST 1/19
2400 signatures @ ~12:00 pm EST 1/19
2600 signatures @ ~12:15 am EST 1/20
2700 signatures @ ~10:15 am EST 1/20
2900 signatures @ ~4:45 am EST 1/21
3000 signatures @ ~7:00 pm EST 1/21
4000 signatures on 2/7
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Upvote on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/16qmss/white_house_petition_ban_regionlocking/
Also, be sure to follow @EndRegionLock on Twitter.
Now for the UK! http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44721
Ban the use of region-locking in games, movies, software, and Internet traffic handling.
We live in a globally-interconnected, digital society. Information about products and services available in other countries can be easily accessed, generating demand. However, the implementation of region locks prevents consumers from exercising their right to choose to import digital goods and services from abroad, whether in the form of physical media or purely as data.
Preventing the sales of books across borders would be absurd, yet this happens regularly with digital media. Neither the assumption of consumers' language abilities nor the lack of coordinated international publishing should strip consumers of their right to choose their purchases. Electronic devices designed to run or display certain types of media ought not to intentionally refuse to function, and regulation is needed.
100 signatures @ ~3:00 am EST 1/17
200 signatures @ ~5:30 am EST 1/17
300 signatures @ ~9:00 am EST 1/17
400 signatures @ ~10:20 am EST 1/17
500 signatures @ ~11:40 am EST 1/17
600 signatures @ ~1:00 pm EST 1/17
1000 signatures @ ~7:45 pm EST 1/17
1100 signatures @ ~8:25 pm EST 1/17
1200 signatures @ ~9:15 pm EST 1/17
1300 signatures @ ~10:30 pm EST 1/17
1400 signatures @ ~11:30 pm EST 1/17
1500 signatures @ ~1:00 am EST 1/18
1600 signatures @ ~3:30 am EST 1/18
1700 signatures @ ~8:00 am EST 1/18
1800 signatures @ ~10:30 am EST 1/18
1900 signatures @ ~1:00 pm EST 1/18
2200 signatures @ ~10:40 pm EST 1/18
2300 signatures @ ~4:00 am EST 1/19
2400 signatures @ ~12:00 pm EST 1/19
2600 signatures @ ~12:15 am EST 1/20
2700 signatures @ ~10:15 am EST 1/20
2900 signatures @ ~4:45 am EST 1/21
3000 signatures @ ~7:00 pm EST 1/21
4000 signatures on 2/7
Coverage:
CVG World
Examiner
GamersLandingZone
Gaming Union
Gimme Gimme Games
GotGame
HieroGraphix Game Journal
Japan Gaming Guide
Kotaku
Maxconsole
Menéame
Operation Rainfall
Stick Skills
Ubergizmo