VLC 2.03 does not get past country codes any more

Just a brief note to say that VideoLan must have had to fold to the big money grubbers that want to make us buy a DVD for every country code. I downloaded VLC 2.0.3 and to my horror A Series of Unfortunate Events became just that. It was my copy from the USA and it would not play on my UK computer. I was sure that it used to play on VideoLan so I backed out VLC 2.0.3 and installed VLC Media Player 1.11.1 from oldversion.com (thank you for being there!). Back in business: my old Videolan beats the money grubbers and plays all countries again.