> Sure.  Basically, the people who put out films do so in a staggered fashion;
> for example, they release it in the US in April, then in the UK in September,
> and in Asia in December.  Now, if the film goes to video in the US in August,
> people in the UK would just buy the video from america and see it before it's
> released in the UK theaters in September.  Thus, the film industry "looses"
> revenue from theatrical sales, which generally makes them rather angry.

Interestingly, if they had shipped 'back catalogue' films as region 0
(readable in all regions) and only set the region for new releases
then I suspect far less people would have bothered to break the rules.

	David

-- 
David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk