https://www.justwatch.com/ca/search?q=manikarnika
In Canada.
In the USA?
https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=manikarnika
Not so much.
This only drives piracy -- it obviously has been ripped and it is available on torrent.
Other side of the coin, I subscribed to Amazon Prime to watch American Gods and it takes more than 24 hours for the latest episode to get to Canada from the USA. It is literally faster to drive across the border, record it and drive back. That's insane. Oh and there's no indication of when it drops. People posted the question for UK and there's simply no answer.
I honestly can say, I tried to move away from piracy -- I have been pirating things since 1985 -- but when I look at https://twitter.com/awealthofcs/status/1110254374192889857 and the availability, I despair and just want to give up. I have the money but having all of these are just annoying. Every service has its own interface and problems. Like, you can't Chromecast Amazon Prime unless you cast the browser tab and that sucks quality wise. And yes, quality! Amazon Prime is not always 1080p but what I torrent is always 1080p and never degrades. Netflix is better quality wise for sure, it was the first I subscribed to watch their Marvel stuff... but I am really not keen on having eventually eight or a dozen different services to search when I just want to watch a movie and deal with the quirks of each.
Piracy is a service problem and these guys are making the service worse and worse every day.
Ps. try searching Roku stick on Amazon.ca , the first result is "Roku® Streaming Stick | Portable, power-packed player with voice remote with TV power and volume | US version – Not intended for use in Canada".
When I lived in the UK I signed up for an out-of-market subscription for NHL, it was something like $50 and I could watch any game from any broadcast (they always do a home and away broadcast) and they’d block out most of the ads because it was out of market and they hadn’t sold the ads there. Now the UK does air some nhl games, particularly during the playoffs, so how’d I do it? Used a vpn in like Peru or somewhere that wouldn’t give two craps about hockey. I paid for it, but still had to jump through hoops to watch it. What I time to be alive.
Whoever figures out the Netflix of sports, wins. I’m calling it.
It is $15 a month and contains basically every sport my friends who like sports watch.
I'm looking forward to seeing it collapse into a pile of garbage when the governing bodies of various sports catch on and try to "extract value" from streaming.
The "available sports" on Kayo: https://help.kayosports.com.au/s/article/What-content-is-ava...
When I travel in the EU, several sites refuse to show because of GDPR. My favorite paid porn site doesn't even explain anything just goes to an "under maintenance" page. I can't buy a cinema ticket for the time when I'll be home because the purchase page simply doesn't load. All of this goes away by SSH'ing to my home and using the OpenSSH SOCKS proxy. Or by using a VPN.
I often thought about building something like this, but always came to the conclusion that the potential legal problems are not worth it. justwatch.com is a life saver when it comes to figure out where to get the content from. +1 for justwatch.com!
No way Disney and Netflix and Amazon Prime will give their programming to Apple.
Or better yet, try to purchase the few remaining non “smart” TVs or have started using computer monitors instead of TVs to get a TV smaller than 40” and without smart TV garbage in it.
(I bet that if regulations changes and merchants started passing on fees in a transparent manner to customers, then rewards cards would go away in the US. How exciting would 2% back be if you also paid an extra 2% directly to each merchant for the privilege of using the cash back card?)
Now the EU has limited the Interchange Fee paid by EU merchants by an order of magnitude:
>For card payments carried out by the cardholder in a shop ("Card Present Transactions"):
> 0.2% of the value of the transaction for debit cards;
> 0.3% of the value of the transaction for credit cards:
>For online payments ("Card Not Present Transactions"):
> 1.15% of the value of the transaction for debit cards;
> 1.50% of the value of the transaction for credit cards.
Source: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-6655_en.htm
https://www.justwatch.com/ie/tv-series/battlestar-galactica https://www.justwatch.com/de/Serie/Battlestar-Galactica
Fully agree though on feeling like a second-class citizen regarding a number online services.
On the plus side, that gap presents sort of a business opportunity but the downside is, it's not a particularly big one.
For example, we don't have a unified banking system in the EU. Each country has its own preferred method of payment. In the Netherlands they have iDeal. In Belgium Bancontact. Dankort in Denmark. The list goes on [1]. Credit cards are not that common in Europe and not everyone has one. To appeal to a wider audience, one must support local payment methods. This is just one example of where things get more complicated compared to doing business in the US.
[1] select the "Europe" tab: https://www.adyen.com/payment-methods
Basically all you need is the IBAN.
The currency will be converted to euro but you don't need to be within the eurozone, only within EU.
The example I gave was regarding accepting online payments as a business from inviduals and other businesses. For US busineses, accepting credit cards is usually enough. Large bills can be paid by wire transfer. In the EU, accepting online payments is not that straightforward. Just figuring out the right VAT rate is complicated to begin with.
See: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/eu-vat-ru...
As for the supposed insane amount of regulation, the majority of international trade is regulated at the EU level so it's quite unified. Not to mention e-commerce which is completely regulated by the EU.
I am not saying that there is not a considerable amount of particularity that may be hindering small startups in fast expansion across Europe but I would find it quite hard to believe that it is much of a factor for the likes of Apple and Amazon.
Doing business in the EU is just a lot harder. Even though a lot of regulation is on an EU level, each country has their own rules and laws on top of that. Just invoicing your customers is a total mess. It's incredibly complicated. Then there is a ton of privacy and data protection regulation (GDPR for example). Germany for example has a dozen or so more rules on top of that. It's one of the reasons why Google Streetview is non-existent in Germany. I haven't even gotten to the the fact that each country has a different language. Although most people of younger generations do speak and understand English just fine.
I totally understand why companies avoid the EU as a result of this. It's a mess. Ironically, I do support a lot of these regulations.
We have the same problem here in Australia.
It's much easier to launch new ventures in the US due to considerably less regulation.
... but it still costs the same, and that’s not even the part that’s frustrating
So no we won't have the exactly same stuff but most of it will end up there one way or another (except Netflix)
The access to third-party content (or lack thereof) isn't in Netflix' hands. That's basically the reason why they double down on their very own originals.
*—though it depends what you mean by 'better'. I don't think anything existing int the EU is as secure and as private as what Apple just announced. For sure the average EU CC is more secure than an average US one and our data protection laws are better. However our credit cards are still allowed to track us and our purchases. Credit agencies still follow us around and rate us. Getting hold of our histories is relatively simple but removing ourselves from those histories is less so.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/apple-unveils-apple-t...
Perhaps they are too big too fail in America, but I'm pretty sure they are not in Europe and other countries. And those partnerships with banks are probably going to cease to exist.
Thanks for the tip!
Content varies by region, though, of course.
And naturally nowhere do they tell you need to use primevideo.com instead of amazon.com as an international customer.
Very little sci-fi shows though.
Here are some examples I can remember:
- Amazon Prime
- Amazon selection and prices
- Amazon Dash
- Amazon groceries
- Amazon third-party selling
- Free shipping in most online stores
- Google Pay, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay (now available in Canada)
- Google Voice
- Google Fi
- T-Mobile unlimited international data
- Credit card churning
- Credit card cashback (up to 6%)
- No taxes on online purchases
- Most prestigious schools in the world
- Netflix content
- MoviePass
- YouTube Red
- Venmo
- Pandora
- Spotify (now available in Canada)
- McDonald's dollar menu, $5 pizza
- Bitcoin exchanges (some options in Canada now)
- Charles Schwab (no international fee)
- Robinhood (zero fee stock trading)
- Cheap Costco booze
- Uber (now available in Canada)
- Airbnb (now available in Canada)
- Planet Fitness ($10, 24-hour gym chain)
- Walmart open 24/7, can camp in parking for free
- You can carry a knife
- Super Bowl ads
- US dollar (most recognized and best exchange rates internationally)
- Dirt cheap chicken and eggs
- Grass fed butter (not strictly US, but impossible to find in Quebec)
- Google Maps satellite resolution and Street view (now available in Canada)
- Best military
- Best Olympic athletes
- Best sport leagues
- Best space program (NASA)
- Most bands tour in USA
- Trader Joe's, Aldi
- You can find American brands (restaurants, foods, cars, clothes, sport teams, movies, electronics) everywhere in the world
- Over 90% of movies and TV shows I've watched are from the US
- Over 50% of the music I listen to is from the US
- Over 90% of podcasts I listen to are from the US
- FAANG, and the quality/compensation of American tech companies
- Most popular guitar brands are American
- Some of the most diverse climate and natural landmarks (Redwoods, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, beaches, deserts, Alaska, Hawaii)
- The world knows more about US politics than their own country's politics (at least that's my case, e.g., everyone can name the US president)
- Most online communities (HN, Reddit) are US-centric (they assume every user is an American)
Some of us do (me, for example). Travel enough and you realize what is actually awesome about America.
But complaining is something Americans do exceptionally well. It is at our core. Just how it is.
Google, Amazon, McDonalds, Walmart, AirBNB, cheap meat & eggs (you know why it's cheap, right?)... all topped off with some hands-down-the-pants fawning over elements of US culture and their 'best military' (do you have a 'top 10 best wars ever' too?).
From a cultural diversity perspective, the spread of american monoculture can become depressing.
From the perspective of trying to reduce climate impact to manageable levels, the amount of services you list which make it extremely easy to forget the majority of externalities in daily decision-making cost can be daunting.
From a political perspective, the success of US narrative-based, media-driven discourse represents a large impediment to actual democracy.
From an economic perspective, it can be depressing to know that these services you list exist in a bubble built on top of terrible social support, an exhausting over-work culture, wealth inequality, disgusting homeless and prison rates, a perpetual war machine, and a debt-based currency.
pizza and beer are way too expensive in Canada though, we agree there.
I personally have:
- Amazon Prime
- Apple Pay - Planet Fitness
- Uber and Lyft
- 24/7 grocery stores
- All the big musical acts (which, mind you, is part of being in Toronto and not, like, Winnipeg)
- Legal, weapons-grade weed delivered right to my door
The credit cards, boy, I will give you that. They'll take my Chase Sapphire Reserve from my cold dead hands. (Though Amex is getting aggressive here.)
Apple Card most likely won't be coming to Europe any time soon. The streaming service is also not likely to come to Europe as it includes US-only services such as Hulu and Amazon Prime.
I am aware that this is a bit of a 1st world problem, but all of these services being US-only can be really annoying. Recently I tried to legally stream Battlestar Galatica in Europe. Not available on Netflix or HBO. So I figured I can rent the show from iTunes. Nope, only in the US. How about Amazon Prime? Nope. US only. In the end, I pirated it from one of the private torrent trackers we have here. I was willing to pay and watch it legally. But aside from ordering the blu-ray discs, I had no choice. Wanna keep piracy alive? This is how you do it.
I do understand why these services are not _yet_ available in Europe. It doesn't make it less annoying though.