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I assume Netflix would happily stream everything everywhere but the content producers that license the content want strict control over who sees what when. That

I assume Netflix would happily stream everything everywhere but the content producers that license the content want strict control over who sees what when. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

shmerl 11y ago
> the content producers that license the content want strict control over who sees what when That's just stupid, or there is some very sick collusion and conflict of interests going on there. Normal creators should be interested in maximizing reach, not in limiting it. The more reach they get - the higher should be their profit.
- LukeB_UK 11y ago
  They sell it to whoever pays them highest in a region
  - shmerl 11y ago
    Which undermines creators' reach if that middleman imposes on them some restrictions, such as not using other distributors which ends up in this geoblocking and such. In the competitive digital market, such middlemen with exclusivity restrictions should not exist. The fact that distributors have such a sway that they can impose limitations shows that competition is poor (i.e. there aren't enough distributors or they have very uneven influence).
Sanddancer 11y ago
Content producers tend to want to distribute their products for as wide an area as possible, which means needing to negotiate exclusivity rights with the providers of certain countries. As such, netflix can't negotiate with the content providers to gain rights, because the providers already sold those rights to other parties. Good streaming services are a relatively new phenomena, and as such, it's going to take a while for content providers to renegotiate deals to provide the content for the newer definition of what the widest area of distribution is. So, in short, blame the local distribution entities as much as the content producers for not providing streaming services for the content they have the right to broadcast at this point in time.

I assume Netflix would happily stream everything everywhere but the content producers that license the content want strict control over who sees what when. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

shmerl 11y ago

> the content producers that license the content want strict control over who sees what when That's just stupid, or there is some very sick collusion and conflict of interests going on there. Normal creators should be interested in maximizing reach, not in limiting it. The more reach they get - the higher should be their profit.

LukeB_UK 11y ago
They sell it to whoever pays them highest in a region
- shmerl 11y ago
  Which undermines creators' reach if that middleman imposes on them some restrictions, such as not using other distributors which ends up in this geoblocking and such. In the competitive digital market, such middlemen with exclusivity restrictions should not exist. The fact that distributors have such a sway that they can impose limitations shows that competition is poor (i.e. there aren't enough distributors or they have very uneven influence).

Sanddancer 11y ago

Content producers tend to want to distribute their products for as wide an area as possible, which means needing to negotiate exclusivity rights with the providers of certain countries. As such, netflix can't negotiate with the content providers to gain rights, because the providers already sold those rights to other parties. Good streaming services are a relatively new phenomena, and as such, it's going to take a while for content providers to renegotiate deals to provide the content for the newer definition of what the widest area of distribution is. So, in short, blame the local distribution entities as much as the content producers for not providing streaming services for the content they have the right to broadcast at this point in time.