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Originally Posted by HarryT
Geo-restrictions on video streaming are not "unreasonable" because, as has been stated, the streaming company would have to pay a considerable amount extra for world-wide streaming rights. If you'd be happy to pay a lot more, that's fine, but many people wouldn't be.
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As I had said in my other post, let us not have a single company with world-wide rights. All arguments for companies with regional rights are valid.
My point is even when companies have only local rights, when a small number of their users use it when they are abroad, it still doesn't affect anyone in the whole ecosystem. Copyright holder gets his cash, local content supplier gets his cash, foreign content supplier gets nothing; but he would have anyway got nothing as a person is not going to buy a subscription service from the foreign content supplier for the few days he is going to stay abroad.
Some may argue that my last point is not valid and that the foreign content supplier is indeed losing out. But, I would disagree, as when trying to balance the rights and welfare of everyone in the whole system, someone has to take care of the end customers too.