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It seems that House of Cards is not available in Switzerland and France (at least French part) because a French TV channel got the rights. Pretty sad. Source :

by jre 12y ago

It seems that House of Cards is not available in Switzerland and France (at least French part) because a French TV channel got the rights. Pretty sad. Source : http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/7d197506-3ef1-11e4-a188-24a047c27404|1 http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/7d197506-3ef1-11e4-a188-24a0... (in French and paywalled, just change your UA to Googlebot)

hackerboos 12y ago
As an EU citizen aren't you allowed to register for the UK netflix service? Pretty sure they need to treat all EU citizens the same.
- skrause 12y ago
  Not really, they still filter by country IP, so even if you register with the UK version you'll only see the local library without a VPN connection.
  - hackerboos 12y ago
    That's what I mean. Are they allowed to do that?
- rjtavares 12y ago
  It's tricky. Article 36 allows some restrictions to free trade: > ... the Treaty does not affect the existence of industrial property rights granted pursuant to the legislation of the Member States. Accordingly, national legislation on the acquisition, transfer and extinction of such rights is lawful. So IPR can be restricted nationally. However: > The second principle is that an industrial property right is exhausted when a product has been lawfully distributed in the market of a Member State by the owner of the right or with his or her consent. Thereafter the owner of the right may not oppose the importation of the product into any Member State where it was first marketed. To me, this is clearly the case of VPNs: you are lawfully acquiring access to the content in the country where it is sold, and then consuming it in another country.
- newoneyeah 12y ago
  Use a VPN service (see my comment elsewhere on this page), register for the American service, and then, on the VPN service's website, change your Netflix region to UK or another region.
  - Quequau 12y ago
    Netflix support straight out told me to do this... and I wonder about it. I'm sort of at the point where I don't see a whole lot of difference between just torrenting whatever it is I want to watch and using a VPN to circumvent copyright restrictions... except using bittorrent is cheaper and more amenable to my crappy unreliable Internet service.
    - newoneyeah 12y ago
      The difference is that when you're using Netflix you're actually paying the people who make the stuff you watch.
      - Quequau 12y ago
        Well, no. I would actually be paying Netflix and some company providing a VPN and neither of them are making the stuff I watch.
        newoneyeah 12y ago
        Netflix pays the content owners / studios for the content they serve, and so the screenwriters/directors/actors/producers get paid if you use Netflix.

by jre 12y ago

hackerboos 12y ago

As an EU citizen aren't you allowed to register for the UK netflix service? Pretty sure they need to treat all EU citizens the same.

skrause 12y ago
Not really, they still filter by country IP, so even if you register with the UK version you'll only see the local library without a VPN connection.
- hackerboos 12y ago
  That's what I mean. Are they allowed to do that?
rjtavares 12y ago
It's tricky. Article 36 allows some restrictions to free trade: > ... the Treaty does not affect the existence of industrial property rights granted pursuant to the legislation of the Member States. Accordingly, national legislation on the acquisition, transfer and extinction of such rights is lawful. So IPR can be restricted nationally. However: > The second principle is that an industrial property right is exhausted when a product has been lawfully distributed in the market of a Member State by the owner of the right or with his or her consent. Thereafter the owner of the right may not oppose the importation of the product into any Member State where it was first marketed. To me, this is clearly the case of VPNs: you are lawfully acquiring access to the content in the country where it is sold, and then consuming it in another country.
newoneyeah 12y ago
Use a VPN service (see my comment elsewhere on this page), register for the American service, and then, on the VPN service's website, change your Netflix region to UK or another region.
- Quequau 12y ago
  Netflix support straight out told me to do this... and I wonder about it. I'm sort of at the point where I don't see a whole lot of difference between just torrenting whatever it is I want to watch and using a VPN to circumvent copyright restrictions... except using bittorrent is cheaper and more amenable to my crappy unreliable Internet service.
  - newoneyeah 12y ago
    The difference is that when you're using Netflix you're actually paying the people who make the stuff you watch.
    - Quequau 12y ago
      Well, no. I would actually be paying Netflix and some company providing a VPN and neither of them are making the stuff I watch.
      - newoneyeah 12y ago
        Netflix pays the content owners / studios for the content they serve, and so the screenwriters/directors/actors/producers get paid if you use Netflix.