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Netflix Expanding Streaming Service to The UK and Ireland
bdking writes "Netflix says it will begin offering streaming video services to customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland early next year. (No DVDs by mail, though. That's so 'Oughts.') The company launched services last month in 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean."
I suspect available bandwidth to homes and the licensing of content are probably greater barriers than the credit worthiness of the government. Any problems with the former?
Have they checked under the sofa cushions?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Screw paying to get around geographic IP blockades.
It's torrents for breakfast, lunch and dinner, until everyone gets with the program. If they never get with the program, then it's torrents forever.
Screw paying to get around geographic IP blockades.
It's torrents for breakfast, lunch and dinner, until everyone gets with the program. If they never get with the program, then it's torrents forever.
Amen brother.
Instead of progressing forward and using "the digital" to its full extent we're going backwards.
Take for instance books : physical books I can buy anywhere and have them shipped to my country. Try making the same thing with e-books. On amazon.uk some e-books are available only to uk customers. Really ? Who the fuck comes up with this shit ?
Torrents forever, not only for video but for books and anything else thats ip locked.
Couldn't agree more!
I live in Denmark and I don't mind paying for music, tv-series and movies. My 6.000+ CDs and 3.000+ DVDs and blu-rays should testify to that. But I absolutely refuse to wait for someone to 'buy rights' or whatever here in my country before I can watch new stuff. If I can't get it legally, I'll have to get it illegally. I have the money in my hand. I want to pay for it. But I can't. Get with the program! - Put your stuff up for sale before someone steals it and gives it away for free!
There's countless of VPN services that basically live on two stupidities:
- Geo-discrimination. If you live the wrong place, there's something you'll have to wait for (maybe forever), that others have already got.
- Suing your customers. The copyright owners spend a lot of effort tracking down 'violators' of their rights and sue them.
VPN allows you to both hide and pretend you're somewhere that you're not.
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) --
"Who the fuck comes up with this shit ?"
Copyright fees collection agencies. Here, I just said it.
In short, they want huge amount of money from these services. If Netflix can't get a profit in mentioned country/region due of these fees, they won't go there.
user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu This server is going down for shutdown NOW!
Works fine on FF7 here. Seems like the problem is you.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
well, they are. Ire and Eng are synonyms.
I have been to several places in London (never mind Ireland) whee saying that would get you a good kicking.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it