The situation where a piece of data is available (sometimes for free) in some regions of the world and not in others (or if freely available in some regions and have to pay in others) and it's because of copyright holders instead of the government prohibiting it.
Examples of ra©ism include regional locks on video game systems.
Site: "We're sorry, but due to contractual obligations, the example here is not available in your country."
You: "That's just pure ra©ism!"
by Artman40 February 26, 2010
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