The way we approach the digital world mimicking the physical gives us plenty of absurd situations.
One of them is in the music world (where, for another ridiculous motive, something called “Global Release Day” exists, an agreement that states that new releases, albums or singles, come out on Fridays).
Where does the “digital world” absurdity comes along? Well, the problem with having a “release date” is that you no longer release things in one place, you release them online - and not really on your website either… even if you wanted to, you don’t want to get in trouble: if an Australian band releases at Friday 00:01 a single on their website, they’re breaking the “Global Release Day” agreement because they’re letting the rest of the world get the single while it’s still Thursday!
So, bands now release music on digital platforms where they can “time block”, a different kind of geoblocking: the song can be heard on YouTube, yes, as long as it is already friday… and so today all around the world there are people using VPNs or other kind of tricks in order to be able to already listen to the music that is freely accessible to Australians.
Not only absurd, this situation is actually detrimental to the “music market”, and obviously frustrating to music lovers…