Online video services like YouTube and AOL Video may appear to be a global phenomenon, but when you try and view some of the higher quality videos you'll find that the ad-riddled Flash wrappers around the movies contain DRM which implements region encoding. Today I emailed Amazon support because I purchased a couple of episodes of Shark while I was at the airport in the States, waiting for my flight to Amsterdam. All was well, and I downloaded 2 out of 5 episodes, the last three were queued since I had to get on the plane. After reaching the Netherlands I discovered that Amazon Unbox refused to let me download the remaining three episodes since my IP-address is showing that I'm no longer within the US. When is the video industry going to discover that region encoding is a bad idea?!?!