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Answer» Quote from: overthehill on June 04, 2010, 10:51:08 AM Well your explanation makes great sense, and they probably have their reasons? One reason is CERTAIN networks outside of the United States pay for the broadcast rights of these programs outside of the United States. For example, the broadcast rights in Asia for all 3 CSI series, House, Lost, Damages, Leverage and others belong to a cable channel called AXN, which is owned by Sony Television. They're usually about a season behind, and they are a cable channel, not a free channel, so the US networks are contractually required to block access to us since Sony has purchased the rights to spam us with local ads and PROFIT from local cable company payments we make. Since they broadcast most shows about a season behind here, no one would subscribe to cable if they could just watch it for free online and not see it months after it's been broadcasted in the US. Locally, overpriced cable (nearly $80/mo.) in a country where the average monthly salary is maybe $300 ends up just feeding the massive PIRATED goods trade already thriving here. You'd be hard pressed to walk into any shopping mall here without finding at LEAST one pirate shop... if not half a dozen...As noted by "overthehill" the 1st link (mine) does not lead you to anything that indicates a "restriction as does JJ3000's link. I went further into it and i suspect that "quaxo" is pointing in the right direction. One GOING deeper finds a site called "HULU TV" and they are the ones making the show available (plus countless others as well) and they seem to control where it is shown and not NBC. Or who knows maybe it is NBC in another manifestation.truenorth Quote from: quaxo on June 04, 2010, 11:29:24 AM One reason is certain networks outside of the United States pay for the broadcast rights of these programs outside of the United States. For example, the broadcast rights in Asia for all 3 CSI series, House, Lost, Damages, Leverage and others belong to a cable channel called AXN, which is owned by Sony Television. They're usually about a season behind, and they are a cable channel, not a free channel, so the US networks are contractually required to block access to us since Sony has purchased the rights to spam us with local ads and profit from local cable company payments we make. Since they broadcast most shows about a season behind here, no one would subscribe to cable if they could just watch it for free online and not see it months after it's been broadcasted in the US. Locally, overpriced cable (nearly $80/mo.) in a country where the average monthly salary is maybe $300 ends up just feeding the massive pirated goods trade already thriving here. You'd be hard pressed to walk into any shopping mall here without finding at least one pirate shop... if not half a dozen... Thanks for that quaxo.Great explanation.Would be nice though if they would tell us that a certain program can be viewed only in the USAI can kind of understand why there may be legal restrictions why some content may be limited to the USA, but it would have been nice if they would have had an error message telling those out of the USA what the problem was.They usually do. I'm not sure why the NBC player isn't showing that. I thought it did. Odd that even in their terms of use there is no mention of restriction to the USA, but they do basically give you permission to download any "Material" from the "Service". I wonder if this includes the TV shows: Quote You certify that you are an individual (i.e., not a corporation). The Service is owned and operated by NBCU and its affiliated companies and contains material that is derived in whole or in part from material supplied and owned by NBCU and other sources. Such material is protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, publicly display, prepare derivative works based on, or distribute in any way any material from the Service, including but not limited to code and software ("Material"). You may, however, download Material from the Service for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices and use the Material in accordance with all restrictions applicable to your use if the Service in general. In the event that you download Material from the Service, such Material is licensed to you by NBCU and NBCU does not transfer title to any such Material to you. As somewhat of a side note Hulu has recently announced that they will start charging a fee for older episodes of the programs they carry. Quote from: rthompson80819 on June 06, 2010, 10:59:25 PM As somewhat of a side note Hulu has recently announced that they will start charging a fee for older episodes of the programs they carry. Yet another service not accessible outside of the United States. But at least they tell you exactly why: Quote International (Outside USA) Hulu is a U.S.-only service at this time. Unfortunately, we don't have international streaming rights for our content. Our intention is to make Hulu's growing content lineup available worldwide as quickly as possible. This requires working with the content owners to clear the rights for each show or film in each specific region. It's a long-term project. We don't have a definite timeline, but we'll continue to work to make it happen.

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Quote from: overthehill on June 04, 2010, 10:51:08 AM

Well your explanation makes great sense, and they probably have their reasons?

One reason is CERTAIN networks outside of the United States pay for the broadcast rights of these programs outside of the United States. For example, the broadcast rights in Asia for all 3 CSI series, House, Lost, Damages, Leverage and others belong to a cable channel called AXN, which is owned by Sony Television. They're usually about a season behind, and they are a cable channel, not a free channel, so the US networks are contractually required to block access to us since Sony has purchased the rights to spam us with local ads and PROFIT from local cable company payments we make.

Since they broadcast most shows about a season behind here, no one would subscribe to cable if they could just watch it for free online and not see it months after it's been broadcasted in the US.

Locally, overpriced cable (nearly $80/mo.) in a country where the average monthly salary is maybe $300 ends up just feeding the massive PIRATED goods trade already thriving here. You'd be hard pressed to walk into any shopping mall here without finding at LEAST one pirate shop... if not half a dozen...As noted by "overthehill" the 1st link (mine) does not lead you to anything that indicates a "restriction as does JJ3000's link. I went further into it and i suspect that "quaxo" is pointing in the right direction. One GOING deeper finds a site called "HULU TV" and they are the ones making the show available (plus countless others as well) and they seem to control where it is shown and not NBC. Or who knows maybe it is NBC in another manifestation.truenorth
Quote from: quaxo on June 04, 2010, 11:29:24 AM

One reason is certain networks outside of the United States pay for the broadcast rights of these programs outside of the United States. For example, the broadcast rights in Asia for all 3 CSI series, House, Lost, Damages, Leverage and others belong to a cable channel called AXN, which is owned by Sony Television. They're usually about a season behind, and they are a cable channel, not a free channel, so the US networks are contractually required to block access to us since Sony has purchased the rights to spam us with local ads and profit from local cable company payments we make.

Since they broadcast most shows about a season behind here, no one would subscribe to cable if they could just watch it for free online and not see it months after it's been broadcasted in the US.

Locally, overpriced cable (nearly $80/mo.) in a country where the average monthly salary is maybe $300 ends up just feeding the massive pirated goods trade already thriving here. You'd be hard pressed to walk into any shopping mall here without finding at least one pirate shop... if not half a dozen...

Thanks for that quaxo.Great explanation.Would be nice though if they would tell us that a certain program can be viewed only in the USAI can kind of understand why there may be legal restrictions why some content may be limited to the USA, but it would have been nice if they would have had an error message telling those out of the USA what the problem was.They usually do. I'm not sure why the NBC player isn't showing that. I thought it did.

Odd that even in their terms of use there is no mention of restriction to the USA, but they do basically give you permission to download any "Material" from the "Service". I wonder if this includes the TV shows:

Quote

You certify that you are an individual (i.e., not a corporation). The Service is owned and operated by NBCU and its affiliated companies and contains material that is derived in whole or in part from material supplied and owned by NBCU and other sources. Such material is protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable laws. You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, publicly display, prepare derivative works based on, or distribute in any way any material from the Service, including but not limited to code and software ("Material"). You may, however, download Material from the Service for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices and use the Material in accordance with all restrictions applicable to your use if the Service in general. In the event that you download Material from the Service, such Material is licensed to you by NBCU and NBCU does not transfer title to any such Material to you.

As somewhat of a side note Hulu has recently announced that they will start charging a fee for older episodes of the programs they carry. Quote from: rthompson80819 on June 06, 2010, 10:59:25 PM

As somewhat of a side note Hulu has recently announced that they will start charging a fee for older episodes of the programs they carry.

Yet another service not accessible outside of the United States.

But at least they tell you exactly why:
Quote

International (Outside USA)

Hulu is a U.S.-only service at this time. Unfortunately, we don't have international streaming rights for our content. Our intention is to make Hulu's growing content lineup available worldwide as quickly as possible. This requires working with the content owners to clear the rights for each show or film in each specific region. It's a long-term project. We don't have a definite timeline, but we'll continue to work to make it happen.

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