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Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal"

posted by n1 on Tuesday June 09 2015, @09:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the wanting-to-be-free dept.

tonymercmobily writes:

One upon a time, movies were released in different countries at different times. This could be done because there was no easy way to copy and store away a movie. If you lived in Italy, you could wait up to two years before you saw a popular movie. Then two things happened: it became easy to copy and store movies; and everybody in the world suddenly became interconnected. The regional segregation has ended: the only ones to believe that it's still there are the dinosaurs from a past era.

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  • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Tuesday June 09 2015, @11:06AM

    by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 09 2015, @11:06AM (#194031)

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @11:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @11:11AM (#194034)

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    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday June 09 2015, @12:25PM (#194044) Homepage Journal

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    • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Tuesday June 09 2015, @01:09PM

      by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 09 2015, @01:09PM (#194054)

      Thanks for the quick response. Btw there are some leftovers in the thread above.