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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.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/06/08/2025235

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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  1. "tonymercmobily" - mailto:merc@mobily1.com
  2. "regional segregation has ended" - http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/netflix_crumbling_borders_geolocation_and_thieves_who_happily_pay_what_they_steal
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=7694

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