Why is their region coding

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Originally Posted by jimidini

Which still doesn't really make sense, because anyone can simply not just import discs, but also a player.

There is almost no one who imports discs. There is almost no one who imports video games.

What do certain companies do to prevent someone from France to import a disc from Britain?
They are silly enough to not include French dubs/subtitles on the disc sold in Britain. That's also silly (sometimes that's even done even when the right holder is the same, yes I know yada yada subtitles + dubs have costs attached - there are even French movies that have English subtitles already on DVD and the publisher releases it only in France without English subtitles, and it's released nowhere else - that's basically saying: I don't want to sell as many copies that I could have sold otherwise). Sony does the same nonsense regarding PS3 games. And that's not even a classic region-import, but an import from a European country to another European country.

It makes 100% perfect sense when one studio owns US rights and another one owns French rights, for example. You can’t legally sell a product someone else owns in their territory.