I'm not really surprised. A lot of companies have been doing this type of stuff for a very long time, even Nintendo has been guilty of this before. Region locks is something I've never really understood the point of. I've already made a rant about region-locking before, so I'll spare you guys of another one.
_________________ The Local Video Gaming Lunatic
Recent stuff I'm into:
Watching: A Certain Scientific Railgun (ep.14, stalled), Hoshi no Kirby (ep. 71, stalled), Nazo No Kanojo X (ep. 8), Acchi Kocchi (ep. 8)
Reading: nothing