| Title | Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" | |
| Date | Tuesday June 09 2015, @09:40AM | |
| Author | n1 | |
| Topic | ||
| from the wanting-to-be-free dept. | ||
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.
| Links |
printed from SoylentNews, Netflix: The Crumbling Borders of Geolocation and the Thieves Who Happily Pay for What They "Steal" on 2026-01-19 08:02:32