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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: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @12:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @12:08PM (#194039)

    GOG had a similar incident back in 2012:

    http://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/man_i_think_im_realy_old_when_did_title_game_got_old/page1 [gog.com]

    For those who don't get what happened, GOG were not escaping characters, so when someone posted a topic called:

    > Man, I think I'm realy old. When did <title> game got old?

    <title> was taken as HTML and nothing displayed underneath it. The community reaction was.. impressive.
    Basically became a playful fight between people doing trolly (but non-malicious) redirects to MLP forums and Steam and others
    doing redirects to simple text pages explaining the situation and advising users stay away from the site for a day or so.

    More detailed write up on the GOG Wiki: http://gogwiki.com/wiki/Notable_Events [gogwiki.com]

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