Living in a small European country, you run into similar problems. Being in the EU helps with physical goods (except new mobile phones until the unlocked versio

Living in a small European country, you run into similar problems. Being in the EU helps with physical goods (except new mobile phones until the unlocked versions make their way to the retail channels), but online services are pretty happy to ignore the fact that you even exist. It gets even worse with media: each country has its own cartel representing entertainment copyright holders, meaning it's essentially impossible that we'll ever get something like hulu.com in Austria unless something changes in a big way. Presumably the legal hassles of working out contracts for each country individually are ridiculous, and simply not worth it in less populous countries. As with almost every aspect of the entertainment media industry, everyone loses: consumers, copyright holders and operator of the service.