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by 6chars 1666 days ago
To clarify for anyone in the US, this applies to everyone _outside_ the US. Previously, Paramount released Star Trek: Discovery on Paramount+ in the US and Netflix everywhere else. Now it's Paramount+ everywhere, only that doesn't exist everywhere yet.

It's amazing to me that the company feels that the benefits of this outweigh the goodwill it costs them among the fanbase. Trekkies are going apeshit over this. It makes me more hesitant to buy Star Trek media in the future, and I'll admit I'm not one to change my buying patterns based on companies' behavior ordinarily.
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LinAGKar 1666 days ago
Not just that, they're not releasing them yet outside the USA and Canada even in places that do have Paramount+, such as the Nordics. So outside the USA and Canada, Prodigy and Discovery are pirate-exclusives even if you are subscribed to Paramount+.
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mattnewton 1666 days ago
Why would they pull it before having a replacement ready? Is this just classic US-first thinking where the rest of the world kinda fell through the cracks?
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6chars 1663 days ago
Seems like it. I imagine there were a lot of people at Paramount who were unhappy with this, but who weren't empowered to stop it from happening. I want to believe that Paramount is a good steward of the franchise, so I'm hoping we'll eventually get an explanation of how this was somehow unavoidable because of how Netflix does business or some weird contractual stuff.

The timing was so abrupt that I really doubt this was just a horrible rash decision. That's totally still possible though.

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