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Oh, yeah! I just wonder if movie selection is the same, or if in some countries there are more titles. Anyone got information on that?

I pay for proxy service just to "pretend" to be in USA and than pay the Neflix regular price. I believe a lot of ppl will subscribe to Netflix once no additional tricks are required.

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The selection is not the same. I just checked and a number of my favorite US TV shows are not available here in the UAE. Looks like I'll have to continue using a proxy.

The territoriality of copyright (and movie industry business models) prevents them from offering the same selection for anything but their self-produced content: Rights need to be cleared separately for every country, and global licenses are pretty much unheard of today.

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