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It's common amoung US companies as well. How many tech companies aren't available in !USA? How much "streaming TV shows" aren't available in !USA?

• navait 11y ago
  90% of those are legal issues, whether it be in the US or in the country they are expanding to, especially in the case of copyrighted media.
  • acveilleux 11y ago
    I don't buy that (outside of copyright licensing). Especially for anything cloud based. As a Canadian, we don't have a choice but to expand to include the US early on (since it's a market 10x bigger) and I've not really seen that become a stumbling block.
    • toyg 11y ago
      Because you don't have a choice, you faced the related issues right away and found them not a big deal. Most US businesses do have a choice to just ignore these issues completely, because their internal market is big enough to sustain expansion for a long time. (although when it comes to audio-video, @navait is correct: it's a legal minefield.)
  • rmc 11y ago
    Amazon's European headquarters, and AWS cloud is in Ireland. There's no amazon.ie. I had to use amazon.co.uk.