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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: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @03:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @03:10PM (#194097)

    Who really f*****g cares whether they can't see the episodes of some stupid TV show in another country right away?

    Like you've got nothing else to watch? Or do? That's not 10x better?

    This is just more whining from the "Those greedy media company executives are screwing us over, and that's why we were forced into pirating" crowd.

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