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Re:Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says by lucian1900 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @08:23AM (#5292182)
Or they can just sell it to the likes of Netflix or iTunes, who have much better reach and convenience than US-only TV subscriptions.
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Re:Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says by blowski on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @09:11AM (#5292399)
Do Netflix or Apple license the content, or just offer some kind of revenue share with the publisher? In the music industry it's the latter.

That model has been a disaster (for music companies) as they take all the risk for the failures, while Apple gets a relatively large proportion of revenue from the winners.

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Re:Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says by lucian1900 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @10:52AM (#5292946)
Afaik they license.
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Re:Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says by yk on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @09:27AM (#5292469)
Netflix is at least not available in Germany. ( And AFAIK iTunes can have regional limits.) So there is no truly global distribution channel. ( Except torrents.)
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Re:Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Game of Thrones, Director Says by lucian1900 on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @09:43AM (#5292555)
Neither Netflix nor iTunes are as global as torrents, which is sad. But they are much, much better than US-only.
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