I ran across this fact the other day when poking around with my DVD/CD-RW… you can only change the regional setting 5 times.
I have heard or read about this before, and it always struck me as odd-- so two questions, please:
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Why? (I assume that it has to do with limiting piracy in some way, but how does that work exactly?)
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What is the physical mechanism that prevents me from changing the regional setting 6 times? (will my drive melt? will a SWAT team swarm in through the window, throw me to the floor and stand on my neck while I suck carpet? does the hardware start thinking of baseball, the firmware become positively flaccid, and the software succumb to the siren-song of gravity and fall right off the Windows sugar cone?)
Enquiring minds want to know… and so do I!