Hollywood Panics

Ever since films have moved from VHS cassettes to the new medium of "Digital Versatile Disc" Hollywood has put the world in a corset.
The US and Canada are Region One; Europe, Greenland, South Africa, the Near East and Japan are Region Two; Southeast Asia is Region Three; Central and South America plus Australia are Region Four; Africa and most of Asia are Region Five and China is Region Six.
The disks sold in one region are coded so that only a player of the corresponding region can play them.
Apparently this restriction was not enough. Now the world monopolists are knocking at the doors of governments in that part of the world America calls the free market.

Do responsibles in the gigantic film empire at all realise the consequences to film aficionados, their customers the world over? I doubt it.

The reason for the new arrogance from Tinseltown is that they fear DVDs will be bought before the screen premiere has taken place in other areas.
Question: Does that constitute reason enough to ban even the sales of older movies on DVD?

For those of you residing in the USA: Nobody living in a non-English-speaking country will have access to original films any more.

Take Allemanic Switzerland for example, where everyone is used to seeing original films on screen and sometimes on tv. Those people are being forced to watch so-called "German Versions", synchronised in Berlin for the German and Austrian markets. Can you imagine the gags cracked by, say an Eddie Murphy or Leslie Nielsen translated into German? They all sound like yapped Prussian orders from under a spiked helmet. How can their dubbing distinguish between an American, an English and an Australian actor? Perhaps by letting one of them talk in Bavarian dialect, the other with a Swiss accent? Foreign versions are unbearable, yet we will get nothing but in the future.
What's more, the many English-speaking expatriats in the countries bossed around by the film empire are blatantly ignored. An American working in àSwitzerland will jolly well have to be content with a film version that has the value of a silent movie to her/him.

On top of that, an entire trade of importers, rental providers and shops is going to the dogs, the Hollywood blackmailers couldn't care less.
Fortunately we can still order original DVDs from the country of origin via the internet. Plus shipment and customs duty, of course.
Now that they got most of the foreign governments marching in line, how long until the film moguls succeed in plugging this last loophole? Then the export of Region 1 DVDs will also be prohibited.
Then we'll be left with only one way to circumnavigate these idiotic fences, namely to buy DVDs from the UK. Britain is region 2 as we are, but they do have originals there. In more than one sense.