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Zero severs in Russia, China, Turkey, India..? Over 2 bn. people left out of the market? I know not all have network access, but still. Not Russia or India at l

Zero severs in Russia, China, Turkey, India..? Over 2 bn. people left out of the market? I know not all have network access, but still. Not Russia or India at least?

throwaway1974 10y ago
https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-provider-pia-exits-russia-server-seizures-160712/ https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-provider-pia-exits-russia-serve... Russia is not a friendly country to do business in China is closed off behind the Great Firewall and probably already has a local netflix clone India, I do not know, could be cost issues?
- inopinatus 10y ago
  India could be a tax issue. As a tech sector APAC manager I have been instructed more than once not to visit. Not for any internal conference, and definitely not for any customer contact, and to take verifiable steps to avoid making "management decisions" if visiting for a holiday. Typical quote, "You do not want to be the guy that triggered tax obligations for us in India". IANAL but I believe it's due to the broad framing of India's "place of effective management" rules. This sort of thing ends up being mostly to Singapore's benefit, transnationals won't place their APAC region office in India as a result.
  - zhte415 10y ago
    As long as your main revenue base is not India, and you're not visiting to make board decisions visiting India, on the business of a subsidiary, should not be an issue. You're looking at taxation for resident income, and source income. Sure, a local entity should pay tax at source, in your case India, but unless you're sitting in India and taking global decisions or decisions creating significant global impact, no need to pay on resident income. IANAL but this is my experience interacting mainly with large corporate. You might want to ask legal in your company or have an international independent auditor advise; don't want the wool may well being pulled over your eyes. And that would be bad, as it would be a dereliction of trust. And I've seen that a lot when, non India specific, but offshored locations try to build ill-founded silos.
pyvpx 10y ago
talk to the licensing lawyers and copyright holders. it has nothing to do with infrastructure and everything to do with licensing content.
witty_username 10y ago
India has about 50-60 ms RTT to SG so it isn't that much of an issue.
rospaya 10y ago
Outside of the US, content on Netflix varies from "bad" to "meh".
- pluma 10y ago
  To be fair, so do most competitors. In Germany Netflix is "meh" but the only half-decent alternative is Amazon Prime, which isn't better at all.
  - distances 10y ago
    Are there English subtitles in Amazon Prime in Germany? Subtitles are a deal-breaker for me, so I've been sourcing my movies from a local brick-and-stone DVD rental after Netflix clamped down on the VPN and DNS workarounds. Surprisingly the series offering in Netflix is quite OK in this regard though.
    - pluma 10y ago
      Not always. Also, there seems to be only one audio track per product, so e.g. "Mr Robot" and "Mr Robot [OV]" are two different products (you can't just switch half-way through an episode like you can with a DVD or Netflix). This is possibly infuriating if you actually rent/buy a TV show and find out you either can't keep up with the original voices or the dubbed audio is unbearable.
  - mixedCase 10y ago
    >To be fair, so do most competitors. Not these "pirates" guys. They seem to have all of the good stuff and some more, so they outcompete Netflix outside the US quite well.
- eatbitseveryday 10y ago
  Why not use VPN services like F-Secure + Netflix to access movies? Is Netflix blocking them? I imagine they should not be, because of the recent ISP-throttling scandals.
  - 10y ago

Zero severs in Russia, China, Turkey, India..? Over 2 bn. people left out of the market? I know not all have network access, but still. Not Russia or India at least?

throwaway1974 10y ago

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-provider-pia-exits-russia-server-seizures-160712/ https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-provider-pia-exits-russia-serve... Russia is not a friendly country to do business in China is closed off behind the Great Firewall and probably already has a local netflix clone India, I do not know, could be cost issues?

inopinatus 10y ago
India could be a tax issue. As a tech sector APAC manager I have been instructed more than once not to visit. Not for any internal conference, and definitely not for any customer contact, and to take verifiable steps to avoid making "management decisions" if visiting for a holiday. Typical quote, "You do not want to be the guy that triggered tax obligations for us in India". IANAL but I believe it's due to the broad framing of India's "place of effective management" rules. This sort of thing ends up being mostly to Singapore's benefit, transnationals won't place their APAC region office in India as a result.
- zhte415 10y ago
  As long as your main revenue base is not India, and you're not visiting to make board decisions visiting India, on the business of a subsidiary, should not be an issue. You're looking at taxation for resident income, and source income. Sure, a local entity should pay tax at source, in your case India, but unless you're sitting in India and taking global decisions or decisions creating significant global impact, no need to pay on resident income. IANAL but this is my experience interacting mainly with large corporate. You might want to ask legal in your company or have an international independent auditor advise; don't want the wool may well being pulled over your eyes. And that would be bad, as it would be a dereliction of trust. And I've seen that a lot when, non India specific, but offshored locations try to build ill-founded silos.

pyvpx 10y ago

talk to the licensing lawyers and copyright holders. it has nothing to do with infrastructure and everything to do with licensing content.

witty_username 10y ago

India has about 50-60 ms RTT to SG so it isn't that much of an issue.

rospaya 10y ago

Outside of the US, content on Netflix varies from "bad" to "meh".

pluma 10y ago
To be fair, so do most competitors. In Germany Netflix is "meh" but the only half-decent alternative is Amazon Prime, which isn't better at all.
- distances 10y ago
  Are there English subtitles in Amazon Prime in Germany? Subtitles are a deal-breaker for me, so I've been sourcing my movies from a local brick-and-stone DVD rental after Netflix clamped down on the VPN and DNS workarounds. Surprisingly the series offering in Netflix is quite OK in this regard though.
  - pluma 10y ago
    Not always. Also, there seems to be only one audio track per product, so e.g. "Mr Robot" and "Mr Robot [OV]" are two different products (you can't just switch half-way through an episode like you can with a DVD or Netflix). This is possibly infuriating if you actually rent/buy a TV show and find out you either can't keep up with the original voices or the dubbed audio is unbearable.
- mixedCase 10y ago
  >To be fair, so do most competitors. Not these "pirates" guys. They seem to have all of the good stuff and some more, so they outcompete Netflix outside the US quite well.
eatbitseveryday 10y ago
Why not use VPN services like F-Secure + Netflix to access movies? Is Netflix blocking them? I imagine they should not be, because of the recent ISP-throttling scandals.
- 10y ago