… For the admin. It’s easy for the admin. That’s not the users.

Not only that, but basic liability usually doesn’t cover gig work either, you need a special and more expensive policy for that.

There are limited exceptions where you can self insure, I think New Hampshire is the only place you can do that in the US. However if you can self insure then you probably aren’t doing gig work.

You must have some really bad stores by you.

DVD players used to be (probably still are?) region locked, and those didn’t require internet service either. The region was either hard coded or could only be changed like 5 times.

It was an attempt to enforce geographic licensing fees and stop piracy.