What is the reason behind people from Country A sometimes not being able to watch video content from Countries B-Z?
Buffy: Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy. Xander: I think I liked it more when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Jan 21, 2010 6:48:01 am PST #3145 of 30001
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2010 6:51:43 am PST #3146 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What is the reason behind people from Country A sometimes not being able to watch video content from Countries B-Z?
Broadcast rights.
Parochialism.
Jingoism.
Feudalism.
Man, I'm having a bitch of a headache today.
Vortex - Jan 21, 2010 6:52:24 am PST #3147 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
What is the reason behind people from Country A sometimes not being able to watch video content from Countries B-Z?
countries B-Z are selfish bastards.
but mostly, it's about money. If, for example, you can't watch Torchwood in the US, you might buy the DVDs. Or it will increase the value of ad revenue when it is broadcast in the US .
Sue - Jan 21, 2010 6:52:41 am PST #3148 of 30001
hip deep in pie
What is the reason behind people from Country A sometimes not being able to watch video content from Countries B-Z?
Licensing rights. For example, Canadian broadcasters will pay good money to show Grey's Anatomy on their network and want to make sure that Canadians watch it on their network. Also, licensed music/images in a show can restrict access.
sumi - Jan 21, 2010 6:57:17 am PST #3149 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Which puppies? The shibas?
Gudanov - Jan 21, 2010 6:57:49 am PST #3150 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Get ready for more campaign ads this year, especially paid for by corporations.
The Supreme Court threw out a 63-year-old law designed to restrain the influence of big business and unions on elections Thursday, ruling that corporations may spend as freely as they like to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress. The decision could drastically alter who gives and gets hundreds of millions of dollars in this year's crucial midterm elections.
By a 5-4 vote, the court overturned two of its own decisions as well as the decades-old law that said companies and labor unions can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads. The decision threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states.
JenP - Jan 21, 2010 6:58:32 am PST #3151 of 30001
Makes sense. Thanks. But I think the little teaser clips should be exempt from that. I keep forgetting every time I click on a Dr. Who tidbit on the BBC site. Annoying. (She said as she studiously avoided doing what she said she was going to do WRT cleaning her room. Maybe the BBC just wants to help me stop procrastinating...)
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2010 7:05:02 am PST #3152 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think the BBC cares when or where anyone else in the world gets to see Doctor Who, so they don't make most of their video accessible to us. It's not their job.
Strega - Jan 21, 2010 7:12:52 am PST #3153 of 30001
If, for example, you can't watch Torchwood in the US, you might buy the DVDs.
Brits pay a license fee to fund the BBC. I don't. While it'd be terribly nice if they decided to use their taxes to let me watch things online for free... it doesn't seem entirely fair to expect it.
§ ita § - Jan 21, 2010 7:14:41 am PST #3154 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not all Brits pay the license fee, but all of them can view the clips, so that's not strictly the dividing line.