I don't think that the services mentioned want to exclude non-Americans. All of them deal with music or video, both of which require country-specific licensing.
In this case the boundaries aren't artificial, they're historic.
The world will move to laws which are unified (or at least close enough) and allow day and date releases and true international markets but it's unrealistic to expect it to happen overnight.
But a resistance to change (some of which will have it's feet in positive intentions, some in negative) is different to collusion.
In this case the boundaries aren't artificial, they're historic.
They can be both, actually.
The world will move to laws which are unified (or at least close enough) and allow day and date releases and true international markets but it's unrealistic to expect it to happen overnight.
Sorry, should have been clearer - they may be artificial but these are historic boundaries which while they may support (in some ways) certain business interests, are not there because of them and in almost all cases pre-date those interests by a considerable period.
