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Comment by chrismsnz | Hacker News Reader

Looks like those outside US are reduced, yet again, to grey-market solutions.

Just like standard US shows, it will air to the US first, and international TV stations (or internet streaming services) can bid on the right to air it, nearly always at a later date.

Which is compltely idiotic business model for Netflix. They can sell their original content directly to me. Unlike traditional TV content producers, they don't have to rely on (and split profits with) third party distributors.

I suspect you are right, but I sure as hell hope you are not.

It hardly matters - at this point everybody under the age of 30 torrent it anyway (or get it from usenet).

The copyright battle has been lost for a long, long time now.

That's like saying Spotify should never have tried because "everybody under the age of 30 torrent it anyway".

Only a very small subset of the population torrents movies. Look only to redbox, Netflix, Amazon, motion picture producers even cable companies to see they are all posting huge revenues. Your assment seems to be based on your friends, not the market at large. (Notice I said Rev rather than profit as revs show that people are paying.)

I'd rather pay 8 dollars a month for hassel free streaming and millions of other people would too. This is big business.

Except there are no other prominent streaming services in Europe afaik, who would pick up that idea.

In the UK we have Love Film, and Amazon might well either already offer or expand in the future to offer streaming in various places... or others might shoot up.

But just because it's originally owned by a digital streaming company, doesn't mean someone like the BBC couldn't buy a license to air traditionally.

Too bad. This would have been enough for me to reactivate my Netflix account here in Canada, but instead I'll just get it via btjunkie and Transmission.

The series is netflix-owned though so it'll probably be available in Canada too. They don't have any arbitrary studio rules for regional licensing to deal with.

It's Europe, where netflix hasn't launched yet, that is left in the cold.

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