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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 tibman on Tuesday June 09 2015, @08:13PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 09 2015, @08:13PM (#194244)

    I think that is a "have the cake and eat it too" situation. If they start at the high-price (like normal) and have the price slowly go down over time (like normal) then they still capture everyone who wanted to buy it. Only instead of a geographical variable they have a time variable. Pirates will pirate, no matter the price.

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