Doug V wrote me last week to say he was going to be in Amsterdam for business and wanted to know if I'd like to hop over for the weekend. I did, and I did.
Prior to moving from the US I'd never seen messages on the web informing me that certain content was unavailable in my region, but since I've seen quite a few. I understand the legacy of the labyrinthine distribution contracts behind it, but it seems so obsolete - these are trivial to circumvent with any proxy server.