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Ariella
8/11/2016 2:40:22 PM
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Re: Foreign Content
@JoeWhat's more, the jurisdiction matters. In general, Russian authorities have a history of being noncooperative with US authorities on a great many things, so that goes into any business decision about whether to proceed with legal recourse.> Does that go for where the show is produced or the hosting of the program, or both.
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@Ariella: They could be sued, sure. But a demand letter generally precedes a lawsuit.
Additionally, they'd have to be caught. Again, this is a story I heard secondhand related to the example I related.
What's more, the jurisdiction matters. In general, Russian authorities have a history of being noncooperative with US authorities on a great many things, so that goes into any business decision about whether to proceed with legal recourse.
Ariella
8/11/2016 1:23:29 PM
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Re: Foreign Content
@Joe so do they get sued for copyright infringement, or is it just too much of a pain to sue for that?
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@Ariella: Certainly they are legal -- when they are licensed/developed appropriately. (Indeed, one show that's been hot on Netflix: the Colombian version of Breaking Bad, Metástasis.
Others, however, like the example I gave, appear to be blatantly unsanctioned ripoffs.
Ariella
8/9/2016 8:53:24 AM
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@Joe some of those foreign versions are comletely legal, though. For example, the British show Doc Martin has a Spanish version through Antena 3. As reported in http://tellyspotting.kera.org/2012/05/13/doc-martin-sherlock-around-the-world/, the station "bought the scripts, recast the series and shot virtually every scene identically from the ITV1 original." Elsewhere I read that the foreign versions have to conform to certain standards set by the show's creators. Also you'd think that because they speak English in a British show that Amercians would just watch the series as is. But there are talks about developing an American Doc Martin.
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@Adi: Interestingly, as virtualization takes off in LATAM and other developing countries with much more market vigor and at much lower cost than in the "first world," we may see this shift.
Unless, of course, the US steals more to make up for it. ;)
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We're Number One! We're Number One! Stealing and shooting -- that's us! ;)
Also worth pointing out: Some countries just make their own (unlawful, permissionless) ripoff of successful American shows. I have a professor friend who used to teach in Russia who told me about a very strange (and clearly unofficial) Russian version of The Big Bang Theory (which, perhaps unexpectedly, was the third-most pirated show a couple years back -- back when GoT was #1 and Dexter was #2).
Access vs. Ownership
It's not actually that surprising when you think about it. Legal viewing of video content, too, tends to be toward streaming rather than "ownership." So too with just about everything else these days in our society where access is deemed much more important -- and even more convenient -- than actual ownership.
Ariella
8/8/2016 10:39:38 AM
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@afwriter That's a very interesting question. I also find it interesting that some video streams put up from sites like the BBC are blocked in the US. Once in a while I see a link that doesn't play here, though I 'm sure it does in other places. In those cases, I assume that some providers are seeking to monetize that content and so don't want it available for free.
Adi
8/8/2016 4:41:12 AM
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Re: Video Piracy and Streaming
@clrmoney - yes, I think it is that impatience now. Consumers have got used to immediate vewing of content through VoD services, and it's probably driving a similar shift for pirated content as well.
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