But like the Netflix example. They do not determine where what gets shown do they? I might have it wrong. But they put there stuff out there and governments and other entities determine where what gets broadcasted.
Hence why we only get limited Netflix due companies placing restriction on what can be broadcasted, in our case it is Multichoice.
I have to pitch the article ideas. This one took me much longer to write than what I quoted for (lesson learnt) — about seven hours everything considered.
Global licensing rights is a quagmire. Netflix has some say, because it comes down to how much money they are willing to spend.
It’s the copyright owners themselves who place restrictions on licenses so that they can sell the content to various distributors. This made sense back in the day before the Internet, because distribution was more difficult and local.
So MultiChoice has the rights to broadcast HBO’s shows and movies in South Africa and it maintains those rights through its relationship with HBO and paying them a lot of money every year. (There’s also clauses like first right of refusal, but let’s skip that for now.)
However, HBO holds those rights directly in the United States and operates its own cable channel which broadcasters can license from it. Sort of like the Discovery and Fox channels in South Africa. It also means it can run its own streaming platform in North America (HBO GO).
Here’s a funny story: when Netflix created its first original shows it did them in partnership with other studios. House of Cards and Orange is the New Black was with Sony, I believe. Because of how the deal was structured (likely by who put in the most money), Netflix had to license its distribution rights back from Sony country-by-country for its own shows.
That’s why MultiChoice continues to hold broadcasting rights to House of Cards and Orange is the New Black in South Africa. However, it must have given up exclusivity, because older seasons of both shows are now available on Netflix in South Africa.
(Also: Netflix in SA has stuff you can’t find in the US, and which isn’t on DStv. Like Star Trek. Woo!)
Aaaanyway. Bottom-line: Netflix has decided that this whole thing is rubbish so now it’s making its own stuff which it can show wherever it wants. It is also slowly buying up rights to key properties that it can show all over the world.
That’s how this global movement will happen — slowly, by people and organisations hacking their way around the cumbersome geopolitics until suddenly one day the nation-state is obsolete.
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Makes sense. So Netflix are now creating (Producing and and and), their own shows?
Thanks for the detailed explanation ma’am! Pretty interesting as I do not have all the insight
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Indeed! Supercool stuff like Stranger Things, Sense8, The Crown, Narcos, 13 Reasons Why, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Marvel’s Iron Fist, Marvel’s Luke Cage, Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s The Punisher, Marvel’s The Defenders, The End of the F***ing World…
Also Star Trek: Discovery (sort of). It owns the rights everywhere but North America, where CBS is broadcasting and streaming over its own platform.
Then it also has a tonne of anime, comedy specials, and some movies (Bright starring Will Smith was last year’s big one, and so far this year it’s Annihilation starring Natalie Portman).
It’s looking at producing 700 seasons of original shows just this year!
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Sjoh! Last time I was on Netflix it was super disappointing. This was More than a year ago though.
One thing I heard/read was that Netflix is getting flooded with “crap” though. Just getting in as much as they can. Turning towards Quantity over quality (Getting off Crpyto tpoic here now 
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I hope no one is using MyEtherWallet
I laugh at people who think and still think online wallets are secure.
For the millionth time, they are not and never will be.
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Only people affected were ones who had the wrong DNS mappings and put their info into the malicious phishing site, but ya, I agree 100%.
As I understand it, it was the Google DNS that was poisoned? Scary!
Pre-publish update: Yeah, nah, I searched around a bit. It was a poisoning attack against their domain which was then cached by Google and other DNS providers. I tested the domain around the time of the attacks and my DNS didn’t seem to be affected (didn’t risk logging in, of course).
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@SIGSTART I absolutely loved your article. Such a fun read. Although there are a few issues I have with the ideologies portrayed, it’s always extremely fun reading paradigms that challenges you’re own idea of the world. I still want to just process what I read and think a bit before having a debate around it and the role crypto has in that world.
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Who here uses a HD wallet or whatever you would call it?
HarDware wallet? Like a ledger?
All mine are paper at the moment.
Yeah, I have only used Online wallets. And unsure how else to go about it or how it works exactly .
I’ve heard good things about hardware wallets since they’re offline unless you have them plugged in. Same goes for paper wallets, except there’s more of a process. What I’ve done is created a wallet on my PC, made a QR code and/or passphrases on paper, and deleted the wallet off my PC. Gotta reinstall/restore the wallet to do transactions, but the market is pretty crap right now, so I’m just holding on for now.
I am just a small time miner. So do not trade at all. Just wondering about other wallet options.
But the paper wallet sounds like lots of effort unless you have LOTS invested
I’m paranoid by nature, so its right up my alley 
Sounds too complicated for me =D Very interesting but complicated
Awesome! I love discussing this stuff, even though it’s the kind of thing that probably won’t happen in our lifetime (barring some kind of revolution or calamity).
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on the topic of DNS Anyone started trying 1.1.1.1 from cloudflare , i’m running it, and its faster than Googles DNS (4ms vs 25ms)
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