Hollywood movies are such shit these days, I wouldn't even watch most of them for free.
After Netflix crackdown on border-hopping, Canadians ready to return to piracy
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#12The same is happening here in Australia talking to people.
Yes I'm cancelling my account as I haven't used it in 2 months.(since the vpn I used was blocked)
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#13Regional rights agreements are really slowing down the move of TV to online. Publishers say "well, we already signed these agreements with these TV companies, so we can't let this shows be streamed online in those countries". TV companies say "well, we only got the rights to broadcast on TV, so we can't stream the show online in this country".
Hopefully as the popularity of online streaming increases, new contracts will take online streaming into account more. There's no real reason to have regional restrictions online, but I'm sure they'll continue as long as the companies want to get more money
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#14Hollywood movies are such shit these days, I wouldn't even watch most of them for free.
Nobody is forcing you to. Plenty of folk have Netflix for access to favorite classics or TV series when they have time to. New titles are only added value for them.
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#15The same effect is occurring in South Africa. People I know are switching back to piracy because our Netflix catalog is probably in the region of 10% of America (for the same reasons, as well as others).
After years of not being able to legally access some copyrighted content, with no discussion and no change, I honestly don't see the copyright holders backing down - strange considering that they are the only ones actually losing out. Nobody deserves to have their hard work stolen, but I can't lie and deny that I don't perceive some form of justice happening here.
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#16Puts pressure back on regional rights holders to sign on with Netflix - join the dominant market player and make a few bucks, or see your content pirated and get nothing
The whole deal system is a problem here. In Germany even the latest season of House of Cards isn't available, and that's their own production.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
are there VPN out there where you can purchase a static IP of your own for it?
You can run your own VPN server on a VPS, but Netflix is (rumored to be) blocking the IP address ranges of DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, etc.
I tried running OpenVPN on DigitalOcean and AWS and had no luck with Netflix on either host.
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#18Regional rights agreements are really slowing down the move of TV to online. Publishers say "well, we already signed these agreements with these TV companies, so we can't let this shows be streamed online in those countries". TV companies say "well, we only got the rights to broadcast on TV, so we can't stream the show online in this country". Hopefully as the popularity of online streaming increases, new contracts w…
> There's no real reason to have regional restrictions online...
While I broadly agree with you I don't buy this one point.
By restricting availability by region, publishers can (a) spread out their promotion costs & reduce risk exposure, and (b) charge more.
Wearing my techno-utopian hat, the first reason is bullshit that nees solving and the second reason is greed. Wearing my realist hat, both reasons are the way the world works and neither seems like it's going to change in short order as publishers hold a monopoly over content.
Does anyone know if Netflix delay release of their own content by region?
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#19Regional rights agreements are really slowing down the move of TV to online. Publishers say "well, we already signed these agreements with these TV companies, so we can't let this shows be streamed online in those countries". TV companies say "well, we only got the rights to broadcast on TV, so we can't stream the show online in this country". Hopefully as the popularity of online streaming increases, new contracts w…
> Hopefully as the popularity of online streaming increases, new contracts will take online streaming into account more. There's no real reason to have regional restrictions online, but I'm sure they'll continue as long as the companies want to get more money
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#20I must say I've been considering the same thing (I'm in the netherlands). for now, there's still ways to watch the US version of netflix, but should that too be blocked, I will probably revert to piracy, even though I've been against it for a long time...