regional lockout

English edit

Etymology edit

Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs.

Noun edit

regional lockout (countable and uncountable, plural regional lockouts)

(video games, DVD) The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.

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prevents the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device

Chinese: 地方停工 (defang ting-gong)
Dutch: regionale uitsluiting
French: verrouillage régional, codage régional
German: regionale Aussperrung
Greek: περιφερειακή ανταπεργία (perifereiakí antapergía)
Italian: bloccaggio regionale, codifica regionale
Japanese: 地方閉鎖 (chihōheisa)
Korean: 지역 차단 (jiyeok chadan)
Russian: регионарное замыка́ние (regionarnoje zamykánije), регионарное зашифрование (regionarnoje zašifrovanije)
Spanish: cierre regional, codificación regional