anyways in funnier, less-depressing news, I downloaded a rip of the Madman blu-ray of Over the Garden Wall and just casually burned it to one of my last Verbatim (ie expensive) BD-Rs without checking it, then popped it in my player to test and got hit with a region lock error. Whoever ripped the disc used AnyDVD, but decided only to decrypt without removing the region coding. So now I'm re-ripping the disc from my burned BD-R with AnyDVD to remove the region lock so I can then burn it again to another disc. I tried "ripping" from the files on the hard drive, but AnyDVD won't talk to a folder, and turning that folder into an iso and mounting it virtually, Microsoft's virtual drive emulator only reports itself as CD or DVD, so that would, I fear, create all sorts of annoying compatibility problems.
I should just buy a region free blu-ray player but I'm in too much debt to do that!