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Same issue in Singapore. The Netflix library available here doesn't even contain the latest season of House of Cards – and it's a bloody Netflix production. I

by secoif 10y ago

Same issue in Singapore. The Netflix library available here doesn't even contain the latest season of House of Cards – and it's a bloody Netflix production. I would love to pay someone for timely content, but now that Netflix is blocking vpn access there is literally nobody to pay. It's complete madness.

dogma1138 10y ago
Netflix doesn't own house of cards actually, it exclusive rights to it in some countries in others it doesn't.
- maze-le 10y ago
  Since it is a production of them, is seems utterly moronic to remove one of the main reasons people would join their services in the first place. Many non-us customers joined, just to cancel the account right after they realized that they had no access to the good content. In some cases this is not the fault of netflix, but that of 19th century copyright laws. I cannot blame them, when other services had the rights prior to them... But 'House of Cards' is a Netflix production, and this doesn't apply here. They would have done themselfs a favour by not selling the rights to this content to the highest bidder. Especially since their ads suggest access to 'House of Cards'.
  - drspacemonkey 10y ago
    The problem comes from the original BBC House of Cards. Netflix doesn't actually own the rights, they're licensed from a company called Media Rights Capital.
    - bryanlarsen 10y ago
      Netflix funded production, so would have had strong leverage over MRC's relicensing. We can't see the contracts, but I'm fairly confident that Netflix would have had at least right of first refusal for rights for any region.
      - drspacemonkey 10y ago
        Leverage only goes so far. Since it was originally a BBC show ~20 years ago, chances are that country-specific rights were sold off long before Netflix got involved.
        bryanlarsen 10y ago
        Why would the licensing of the old shows have anything to do with the licensing of the new shows? MRC licensed the name and concept from the BBC. That license would definitely not be regionalized.
        drspacemonkey 10y ago
        It's likely impossible to say without having insider knowledge. Perhaps somebody with international IP law could weigh in. But it appears there's an added wrinkle. Back when the show started production, MRC sold off rights in countries where Netflix didn't yet operate. CanalPlus in France and Sky Deutschland in Germany managed to get exclusive rights in their respective countries. Netflix is trying to get the rights globally, but they can't force anyone to sell them anything. source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-subscribers-europe-wont-get-714647 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-subscribers-eu...

by secoif 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago

Netflix doesn't own house of cards actually, it exclusive rights to it in some countries in others it doesn't.

maze-le 10y ago
Since it is a production of them, is seems utterly moronic to remove one of the main reasons people would join their services in the first place. Many non-us customers joined, just to cancel the account right after they realized that they had no access to the good content. In some cases this is not the fault of netflix, but that of 19th century copyright laws. I cannot blame them, when other services had the rights prior to them... But 'House of Cards' is a Netflix production, and this doesn't apply here. They would have done themselfs a favour by not selling the rights to this content to the highest bidder. Especially since their ads suggest access to 'House of Cards'.
- drspacemonkey 10y ago
  The problem comes from the original BBC House of Cards. Netflix doesn't actually own the rights, they're licensed from a company called Media Rights Capital.
  - bryanlarsen 10y ago
    Netflix funded production, so would have had strong leverage over MRC's relicensing. We can't see the contracts, but I'm fairly confident that Netflix would have had at least right of first refusal for rights for any region.
    - drspacemonkey 10y ago
      Leverage only goes so far. Since it was originally a BBC show ~20 years ago, chances are that country-specific rights were sold off long before Netflix got involved.
      - bryanlarsen 10y ago
        Why would the licensing of the old shows have anything to do with the licensing of the new shows? MRC licensed the name and concept from the BBC. That license would definitely not be regionalized.
        drspacemonkey 10y ago
        It's likely impossible to say without having insider knowledge. Perhaps somebody with international IP law could weigh in. But it appears there's an added wrinkle. Back when the show started production, MRC sold off rights in countries where Netflix didn't yet operate. CanalPlus in France and Sky Deutschland in Germany managed to get exclusive rights in their respective countries. Netflix is trying to get the rights globally, but they can't force anyone to sell them anything. source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-subscribers-europe-wont-get-714647 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-subscribers-eu...