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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 paulej72 on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:15PM

    by paulej72 (58) on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:15PM (#194074) Journal
    Fixed. Thanks for letting us know, but I would think the next time try it on dev.soylentnews.org instead so we don't clog up the production site with bad data.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @02:50PM (#194087)

    but I would think the next time try it on dev.soylentnews.org instead

    I would have done if I had known of that site.

    • (Score: 2) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday June 10 2015, @06:06AM

      by pkrasimirov (3358) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 10 2015, @06:06AM (#194407)

      Me too. Thanks for the info.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by pTamok on Tuesday June 09 2015, @07:55PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Tuesday June 09 2015, @07:55PM (#194230)

    Apologies.

    I had a brainfart, and put the tag in the subject of the comment trying to let you know there was an unclosed tag in the article.

    I then noticed that my subject contained, of course, an unclosed tag, as the poor computer couldn't know I was referencing the tag, not trying to use it. So my apology for that, which contained the tag in the subject again made things even smaller.

    I really wasn't trying to make a point.

    But at least I inadvertantly discovered what could have been a serious bug. But only by demonstrating my stupidity. So sorry again.