[Tehnix]

I reeeeeeally wish I could watch my shows in a more legitimate way than currently. I recently went through everything that I'm watching and tried to find out what I could actually watch on streaming services.

.....which was unfortunately only a limited subset, especially since I'm not US based (Scandinavia here).

Besides the problem of everything being spread out over Netflix, HBO, Amazon Prime and what have you not, some content is just not available, such as Supernatural outside of US/UK/Germany.

I almost feel like the TV networks wants people to pirate things...

[sharkweek]

Netflix is well aware of their massive quantity differences country-to-country, hence the push to focus almost entirely on building their own originals to create a unified library w/o having to negotiate for streaming rights in each country.

The differences are pretty nuts:

http://exstreamist.com/is-your-countrys-netflix-library-grow...

[fooey]

I think the TV networks were very short sighted and ended up with shitty contracts that never accounted for distributing or streaming their content internationally.

They would if they could, but they'd have to go back and renegotiate all those old settled contracts.

[dawnerd]

Still happens today. Example being Amazons Grand Tour not being available in Canada from launch. Of all companies they should have had that figured out.