On Sep 20, 4:15 pm, Karsten Silz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:06:15 AM UTC+2, mP wrote: > > > So why has Netflix taken so long to branch out to new markets like > > Europe and Australia. > > International movie rights are a mess, and you need to need to negotiate > them per country. So when you say "Europe", you're talking about at least > five big and different countries here (Spain, France, Italy, UK and > Germany). AFAIK only Microsoft, Sony and Apple do any significant > international digital movie selling / renting for that reason. Amazon, for > instance, only recently started doing some Netflix-like streaming through > its Lovefilm subsidiary.
Most of what you say goes without saying, but in the end there are only so many big names in Hollywood which control a significant portion of the English speaking movies and so on. Either way given Netflix is a large company they should have the ability to negotiate this. If the companies in my part of the world can work out deals for themselves I would expect a company that is much larger to also have the ability close such deals. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
