Rant about Geo-Restriction

[ratetankmark]

I know this'll be a pure rant just to get things off my chest and I know that I'll have to wait for the 25/12/13 episode of NXT to come out on Sky Sports.

But the idea of things like Geo-Restrictions and 'This Video Is Not Available In Your Country' is ridiculous because people should be aiming to get their product to as many countries as possibly because it could make them more fans and get them more money by creating new fans, I know that they don't chose, or shouldn't chose, what countries to not show their videos too based on what they think of the country but I try to watch an NXT video on Dailymotion from Hulu's official channel on the site and it wouldn't let me watch it, Hulu is an American company and I live in England, it can't be that hard to get your product to me and other UK NXT fans at the same time as the Americans.

(Of course if it turns out that there is an logical explanation for this I will look like a massive dick, however at least I got this rant off my chest)

[Chip]

Licensing issues.

[Dragonfly]

Dec 26, 2013 6:26:17 GMT -5 Chip said:

Licensing issues.

Roughly 95% of what I pirate are foreign shows that don't (or in many cases, never will) air in the US. How is blocking New Zealand dramedy Nothing Trivial hurting broadcaster TV One at all? I am physically unable to watch it live due to the whole "I live on the other end of the world thing," TV-based on-demand is unavailable for obvious reasons and the DVDs won't play in anything other than my Mac due to formatting issues. Torrents are all I have left. I get blocking programs that air in a certain part of the world. But locking out a potential, albeit it small, fan base makes absolutely no sense to me.

[Chip]

Dec 26, 2013 12:37:26 GMT -5 Dragonfly said:

Dec 26, 2013 6:26:17 GMT -5 Chip said:

Licensing issues.

Roughly 95% of what I pirate are foreign shows that don't (or in many cases, never will) air in the US. How is blocking New Zealand dramedy Nothing Trivial hurting broadcaster TV One at all? I am physically unable to watch it live due to the whole "I live on the other end of the world thing," TV-based on-demand is unavailable for obvious reasons and the DVDs won't play in anything other than my Mac due to formatting issues. Torrents are all I have left. I get blocking programs that air in a certain part of the world. But locking out a potential, albeit it small, fan base makes absolutely no sense to me.

Yeah, it sucks but that's how the world is. Currently the British government is getting a boner over blocking any torrent site people seem to stick under their noses so my access to media I otherwise have no access to is getting more and more limited. If they ever block my source of old wrestling TV shows I'm gonna be very very sad.

[ZERO]

Dec 26, 2013 12:44:33 GMT -5 Chip said:

Dec 26, 2013 12:37:26 GMT -5 Dragonfly said:

Roughly 95% of what I pirate are foreign shows that don't (or in many cases, never will) air in the US. How is blocking New Zealand dramedy Nothing Trivial hurting broadcaster TV One at all? I am physically unable to watch it live due to the whole "I live on the other end of the world thing," TV-based on-demand is unavailable for obvious reasons and the DVDs won't play in anything other than my Mac due to formatting issues. Torrents are all I have left. I get blocking programs that air in a certain part of the world. But locking out a potential, albeit it small, fan base makes absolutely no sense to me.

Yeah, it sucks but that's how the world is. Currently the British government is getting a boner over blocking any torrent site people seem to stick under their noses so my access to media I otherwise have no access to is getting more and more limited. If they ever block my source of old wrestling TV shows I'm gonna be very very sad.

I'm the same with my Tokusatsu fansubs. If they suddenly get blocked, I will have VERY little left to watch.

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