Most of the non-English speaking world is literally locked out of the domain name system by reason of limitations in language.

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For starters, as one of the first name brand cable networks, ESPN locked up universal carriage early on.

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Scientific-Atlanta and Motorola locked up the box market by controlling--in the name of antipiracy--the encoding software that scrambles a video signal at the cable company's hub and descrambles it at the home.

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