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Originally Posted by oilyfan
What Netflix is doing is heavily investing in orginal content, like Narcos, Orange is the new black etc. These shows are available globally on Netflix, and more shows will be in the future. Thats what Netflix is talking about.
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But all that content is available globally so that doesn't make any sense.
What they are talking about is removing geographical restrictions on all content, like the Canadian only Disney deal. The guy that wrote that blog is really stretching by implying that they will be removing geo restrictions anytime soon.
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Originally Posted by gottabekd
Netflix just expanded to 130 countries. I imagine licensing content individually to each region costs a lot of time and effort, for both sides. If they can work with a studio and say "Hey Sony, instead of spending weeks of negotiating back and forth for each country, what if we just lock up the streaming rights to your new movie globally? And here's an extra 2%. We would have spent way more hiring an army of content buyers to work out all these deals individually", then I think both sides are better off.
So as a going forward strategy, it makes sense where they can do it. It also makes these services to access another countries Netflix service less appealing. But certainly there is a lot of history behind the geography-based licensing, and Netflix isn't the only player, so it will take a while for them to really impact the industry with this model. For the short term, no doubt the catalogs will continue to be very different.
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I wholeheartedly agree. And it is really unfortunate the huge mess licensing is right now because untangling that web is gonna take a long time.