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This is huge. This is the reason why my wife and I ditched Netflix and other streaming services we've tried. I'm guessing a lot of Europeans are like us, spend

This is huge. This is the reason why my wife and I ditched Netflix and other streaming services we've tried. I'm guessing a lot of Europeans are like us, spend significant time living and working in other countries or at least have family members in various other countries which you visit a couple times a year. And not being able to access content you're paying when you're on a vacation in France, or visiting Family in Poland over Christmas, and especially not in the all the languages you know are available on the platform is the most annoying pain point. Of course we live on the German / French border now and previously on the German / Poland one, so maybe I'm just an outlier here and this isn't such a big deal...

song 10y ago
I actually enjoyed the fact that with netflix I'd get different choices of movies and shows every time I'd cross a border... It kept their library a bit more interesting :) That said I fully support this decision. It's a good move for the EU and I have no love for the MPAA and the Europe's movie and TV industry.
- jfaucett 10y ago
  When did you have that? When we tried Netflix it simply wasnt accessible outside the country.
  - aquilaFiera 10y ago
    Netflix launched globally in January 2015. With the exception of a few countries (like China, North Korea, Syria, and a few others) Netflix is available world wide now. The catalog still varies by country though but nearly all of the Netflix Originals are available world wide.
    - Freak_NL 10y ago
      Yeah, right now Netflix is available to you basically everywhere, but the regional licensing means you get to see only the content available in the country you are presently in, not where you are a subscriber. Of course, to prevent customers from pretending to be somewhere else, VPN access is mostly blocked now.
  - m_t 10y ago
    I experienced this last summer (2016). I was in Portugal, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Portuguese's Netflix still had a tv series that the UK one had ditched. The pleasantness didn't last long when I realised that my poor knowledge of Portuguese wasn't enough to read the subtitles!

song 10y ago

I actually enjoyed the fact that with netflix I'd get different choices of movies and shows every time I'd cross a border... It kept their library a bit more interesting :) That said I fully support this decision. It's a good move for the EU and I have no love for the MPAA and the Europe's movie and TV industry.

jfaucett 10y ago
When did you have that? When we tried Netflix it simply wasnt accessible outside the country.
- aquilaFiera 10y ago
  Netflix launched globally in January 2015. With the exception of a few countries (like China, North Korea, Syria, and a few others) Netflix is available world wide now. The catalog still varies by country though but nearly all of the Netflix Originals are available world wide.
  - Freak_NL 10y ago
    Yeah, right now Netflix is available to you basically everywhere, but the regional licensing means you get to see only the content available in the country you are presently in, not where you are a subscriber. Of course, to prevent customers from pretending to be somewhere else, VPN access is mostly blocked now.
- m_t 10y ago
  I experienced this last summer (2016). I was in Portugal, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Portuguese's Netflix still had a tv series that the UK one had ditched. The pleasantness didn't last long when I realised that my poor knowledge of Portuguese wasn't enough to read the subtitles!