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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, Informative) by Ryuugami on Tuesday June 09 2015, @03:44PM

    by Ryuugami (2925) on Tuesday June 09 2015, @03:44PM (#194111)

    Thanks for the help, but I don't have any problems with the default size :)

    There was a bug (well, two bugs) with unclosed tags in the summary and comment subjects being applied to everything below it, including the input boxes. On top of that, subjects weren't filtered for tags at all, so arbitrary tags could be used there... including <script>. Whoops.

    In this particular case, after three or four layers of <small> the text became too tiny to comfortably read, hence my comment about trying to close the tags (it failed; perhaps I should've put them in the subject instead of in the comment body).

    Thanks to a swift action from the devs (thank you guys, you're the best), at least the subject filtering bug seems to have been patched before any damage was done. Well, except for a bunch of comments that were demonstrating the bug but no longer do so :)

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