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Comment by mbrutsch | Hacker News Reader

Sadly, half those shows are not actually available on Netflix.

What are you talking about?

Netflix has sold distribution rights abroad to some of their own shows such as House of Cards, then entered the market shortly after.

As a result, you can now subscribe to Netflix in these markets and not get access to their own programming. Yes, it is as terrible as it sounds.

And yet, you can get around those restrictions quite easily.

Or you can torrent it quite easily and don't pay a dime. The point is : if I have to do illegal stuff (getting around geoip is against TOS) and start installing software, search on the internet for a tutorial to learn how to watch my stuff, I might as well look for "House of cards torrent", it's faster and cheaper. I can pirate any music I want, yet I pay Apple Music $10/month to get it because it's easy, the UI is nice, everything is in there, and the service "just works". If I have to install a VPN, to change my IP so that the service I am paying will let me watch a show they are producing, something is broken. Period. Fix it or I'll pirate it.

You are still paying the content creators if you bypass the geoblock and pay the monthly subscription fee. And that fee is not at all onerous.

In Australia, all the streaming providers have the problems of not being able to show all content. There is stuff in Australia that we can't watch at all. Bypassing Geoblocks makes me a citizen of the entire world, which I gladly pay for.

Wow, that's insane. Hopefully they won't enter that sort of deal in the future, since it basically destroys their entire value proposition.

Of the eight shows listed in the first image, Man in the High Castle, Ash, Expanse and Fargo are all NOT available on Netflix. That's half.

Those are the top shows right now. Those are not supposed to all be on Netflix. Did you read the article?

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