No. Nevar evar. GOG's regional locks on games are government-mandated, and IIRC there's only one game which is affected by them anyway, TW2. If Australians have no say in what their government does, GOG can't help. Evil industry practices can and should be challenged.

Good luck reasoning them Barry, we have a bunch of Che Guevara wannabes at hand :)

Oh well, the movie industry doesn't need gog and at this rate we're gonna end up with movies with full worldwide rights because no sane local distributor would have invested a dime in it :o)

for anyone wanting to see how regional locked movie store will look , feel free to visit the online https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com sony's own store half of the regions of the world wont have access to the movie and music sections , the other half will only see 10-20% of what is avliable to major regions like us .

The only people benefiting from this will be the regions where there is not a lot of restrictions aka usa.

This. Films is a different market, that calls for different solutions, Open a separate web store for films, do what you want , regional lock or even drm there if those interested in films think it's a good idea. but then seggregate films from games.

After reading the OP my answer is still NO.

And it doesn't matter if I happen to be in the "allowed" or "restricted" part of the world, region restriction, in this digital age, is an archaic aberration, that shouldn't exists anymore and I rather not have GoG take part in it.

EDIT : And as the OP forgot to put the "no" link here it is : http://www.gog.com/wishlist/movies/nay_to_more_big_movies_which_would_introduce_region_locks

Presumably, of course, not one of them ever sees a movie in a theater, or on television, or has ever bought or ever will buy a DVD or Blu-Ray. Because, of course, the system that sold those things to them is precisely the same one that is being discussed here, so naturally they are willing to never consume any corporate media at all. Correct?

Or might it be that no one ever asked them, so they didn't have a chance to sit there and scream how they were going to take on the evil giants of a global industry, as they sat typing at home next to their regionally-locked DVD collections, watching their regionally-locked television shows, seeing their regionally-locked Star Wars movies, while they happily paid money in and never gave it a second thought?

Nah, that wouldn't be the case.

Yep. He did "forget" that. :)

But thou must.

So let's just allow corporate policies to invade every part of our lives because we own a DVD or go to the movies, shall we?
LOL

To be fair to Barry, I didn't think about putting up a "no" link for the Nordic games discussion since I was focused on a "yay" for that; someone else thought of it and I edited the link in to be fair.

Peoples buy games from Steam, I even do it myself from time to time, but that doesn't mean that they would like GoG to start selling DRM using games.

This.

No. Absolutely not.

That's a fair comment, and worth answering. The difference here, and people really seem not to understand this, which is weird, is simple.

There are DRM-free games, and DRM is in fact a weird addition to existing games that is a relatively recent phenomenon that directly, and negatively, affects the person who has bought the game. PC games from the start did not have DRM, or had "I know the answer because it's here on the box" DRM that was reasonably calculated to guarantee ownership. Since DRM is an addition to an existing product, and allows an outside party to control something you own (or, as they would have it, "own"), it is inherently problematic.

I love Steam, incidentally, and use it just about as much as I use GOG.

Regional control of films is completely different. First off, it has never not existed. It has been the heart of the film market from the very first exports of commercial films. EVERY film is distributed by a company that has purchased rights for that purchase, and every purchase of rights in the modern era contained a region where the rights could be exercised, and a time limit after which the rights reverted to the property holder. Film availability in a given region is and always has been controlled by distribution companies, which have invested heavily for that right. It is how indie films are made - they screen for distribution, often, before they are finished, so they can fund the final parts of their production. Projects that do not get distribution are usually never seen, and often never finished.

Second, it is not DRM. It does not alter or control the use of the product after it has been purchased. It does control who may purchase it, not randomly but because someone else already has the right to sell it in that place. The game market doesn't work this way because until recently it was too small to care about, and now it's being sucked up by giant corporations. Regional availability is not because currencies don't match or because Sony wants to squeeze nations for different purchase amounts. It's because someone, an actual person very likely, is doing his or her business and trying to make her or his income by already selling that product in that place.

This is an apples and chairs argument. GOG's commitment to do business in the film market has no reasonable effect on their games business. The products run by different rules.