Right - the legal system didn't have this problem before. If you took a vacation in France, you could only watch what was on French TV or in their Cinemas. Times have changed, and we'll suffer while old industries catch…
It's not that they haven't thought about it. It's that it is not legally and economically viable (for them).
Media licensing, The broadcast industry, and the lawyers firmly attached to it, pre-existed the Internet. So now we have laws and customs from the 1930s governing streaming tv on the Internet.
That's right, it is largely out of their hands, but as time goes on, they will have more control over it. For example, say they want to license a show, and they get it for one year for $50k, usa-only. Okay, but we want…
> Sounds like netflix is in a bind here. They are only licensed to show content in specific regions, and there are no doubt penalties by the actual copyright holders of they go outside those bounds. Bingo. > They must…
Media companies got used to maximizing profits by region locking. Media company lawyers got used to writing those contracts. They are entrenched until people start successfully negotiating global licenses.
Because the people who own the rights to that think "I might be able to sell the USA rights".
> So.. people are actively looking for vpns and proxies to actually pay netflix to get content, and netflix actively fights then, so they cannot get the content they (want to) pay for. Correct. Because the contracts…
Correct.
Excellent point, but if you spend time looking into this area, you will find there is not a lot of good research published.
Yes, and Netflix knows about that report,too. No, the second idea is silly. They already have buckets of information. In fact, they have a whole team dedicated to making sure they don't hold onto certain types of PII…
The way this works is, the content provider (actually, someone working on the content provider's behalf) does an independent check every so often. Then they (the content lawyers) come back to Netflix and say "hey, 10%…
Right - the legal system didn't have this problem before. If you took a vacation in France, you could only watch what was on French TV or in their Cinemas. Times have changed, and we'll suffer while old industries catch…
It's not that they haven't thought about it. It's that it is not legally and economically viable (for them).
Media licensing, The broadcast industry, and the lawyers firmly attached to it, pre-existed the Internet. So now we have laws and customs from the 1930s governing streaming tv on the Internet.
That's right, it is largely out of their hands, but as time goes on, they will have more control over it. For example, say they want to license a show, and they get it for one year for $50k, usa-only. Okay, but we want…
> Sounds like netflix is in a bind here. They are only licensed to show content in specific regions, and there are no doubt penalties by the actual copyright holders of they go outside those bounds. Bingo. > They must…
Media companies got used to maximizing profits by region locking. Media company lawyers got used to writing those contracts. They are entrenched until people start successfully negotiating global licenses.
Because the people who own the rights to that think "I might be able to sell the USA rights".
> So.. people are actively looking for vpns and proxies to actually pay netflix to get content, and netflix actively fights then, so they cannot get the content they (want to) pay for. Correct. Because the contracts…
Correct.
Excellent point, but if you spend time looking into this area, you will find there is not a lot of good research published.
Yes, and Netflix knows about that report,too. No, the second idea is silly. They already have buckets of information. In fact, they have a whole team dedicated to making sure they don't hold onto certain types of PII…
The way this works is, the content provider (actually, someone working on the content provider's behalf) does an independent check every so often. Then they (the content lawyers) come back to Netflix and say "hey, 10%…