A big “Fuck Off” by the content industry and Netflix to users worldwide
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But that being said... the bit about how this will simply encourage piracy is spot on. Perhaps Netflix themselves have no choice but to do this if they want to keep their contracts, but as usual content industries are shooting themselves in the foot by thinking that people on the wrong side of a national border will just politely give up rather than find another way to get the thing they want.
If they don't have the licence to show something in a particular place, then they must at least show that they're actively trying to stop people in that region accessing the content. Which is what they're doing.
No point in throwing toys from the pram.
There's no licensing problems for self produced shows, except maybe the soundtrack - but then again, Netflix isn't stupid and has negotiated for worldwide licensing. At least I hope so, because failing to secure these rights would be... epic failure.
As an aside, I think 'Netflix Original' is a bit of a misleading title. Most of the Netflix Original shows (at least on the UK version) weren't actually Netflix 'originals'.