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> When I travel to different countries and pull up Netflix, I see shows available in that country that aren't available in another. It's annoying.

This is, a lot of time, not Netflix fault (or only partially). Distribution contract with exclusivity clauses can have been signed before Netflix ultimately implanted in the country. It means, they cannot get the right to stream even if they wanted before X years. They also have to start competing against local company who are already well integrated in the local market and can have more leverage power / money to invest. At the end of the day, hen Netflix start in a country with X amount of user but a local TV station already have several time the viewer, there is less incentive for Netflix to spend big bucks to get a specific license until they reach a bigger amount of membership.



The majority of users don’t care about the intricacies of international IP laws.

People just want to watch a show or movie, and it is easier to travel to another country to watch something, than procuring it in one’s own country?


Yes okay, people also don't care about the intricacies of gravity but it's still affect them. Just like you cant decide how gravity works, Netflix cant get licensing however they want.

Also, I highly doubt that traveling to an other country is more easy than getting the show in you own country. Unless it is banned in your country, the cost of a blue-ray is usually way cheaper than a flight ticket.




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