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Originally Posted by HarryT
Are you suggesting that all content providers should be forced to only sell world-wide rights? The result of that would almost certainly be massively increased prices for the consumer. That's why virtually all video streaming services are single country - the cost of buying right to show it world-wide would be huge, and the legal issues horrendous, with different rights-holders in different countries.
Again, though, none of this has anything to do with "copyright legislation". The title of this thread is extremely misleading.
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I was discussing the content of the article and not the title of the thread.
No I'm not saying that content providers should be forced to do anything. They can continue to use their broken model, just don't ask for the government to try to fix it through tougher law enforcement.
There is no reason that costs would go up. They don't have to sell exclusive world wide rights, it can be non exclusive world wide distribution rights and they get compensated with a percentage of the profits rather than one time up front.