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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:00PM (#194123)

    I wonder how region restrictions can be considered compatible with free trade.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by kaszz on Tuesday June 09 2015, @06:01PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Tuesday June 09 2015, @06:01PM (#194149) Journal

    Donation and dirty secrets make everything compatible :P