Netflix is great, I guess. I would know for sure if they were available in my country. Same as Pandora, Spotify etc.
Re:Popcorn Time in Your Browser
by Bladegunner on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @08:29AM
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Try out a vpn, like hola. (note: only have hola active while you are using it, there are some security risks using it.)
So break one law instead of another. There's no advantage to a VPN versus TPB, and you're still ilegally downloading the show (since the licence for the mentioned websites state that it cannot be exported, etc).
You still need a debit/credit card for that country.
No, actually you don't. When I visit the States, or when using a VPN, I get the US version just fine, at least with Netflix.
How do you pay for it?
Hollywood isn't in the moving bits around industry. That was never the hard part. It's like saying you improved Photoshop by making a cracked version that's easy to download.... Users might be happy, but imagine you work at Adobe.
That's not really true. The big studios are distributors of the content. They traditionally sold to Cinemas, and had DVDs made, etc. The fact they missed the boat on digital distribution is completely their fault...
Sure and Adobe is distributor of Photoshop, but I wouldn't really say they're in the "downloading install files" business.
They're also investors in the creation of the content.
> Netflix is a great product that falls down only in terms of content
...and app UI. Have you ever tried to drive your chromecast with the netflix app? It's buggy as hell, doesn't display comments, doesn't display related content, and has a horrible search experience. I half believe that it's bad deliberately as a way to cover up holes in their content.
Netflix is a great product that falls down only in terms of content. If Netflix had more TV shows as box sets, and new episodes of currently being broadcast TV seasons, I would happily pay 10 times as much as I do (no exaggeration) and never use anything else legal or otherwise. The resistance that the established industry has to making deals to enable that sort of service is the reason that Popcorn Time can beat them.