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Netflix eyes global empire as Internet TV battle heats up

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The question(s) is, will Japan let Netflix in? Should they?

Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix was quoted late last year saying: "An interesting thing about Japan is the fact that the largest markets in the world for Japanese animation is Japan, France and America, all the places where we have very big footprints, or we hope to..."

Be nice to access subscribed to content when outside the licensing country without using a VPN or Proxy.

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The point of the internet is to eliminate borders and let consumers buy from wherever they like. But in the case of media we still find country restrictions and other nonsense imposed by content producers. Whatever happened to free trade there?

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They missed the boat somewhat in Japan, credit to Hulu who came in a built up over the past few years. When they started in Japan, it wasn't anything special, it took time to build up support, better infrastructure and get shows. Netflix will struggle unless it offers more than Hulu. Netflix Japan will not be anything like Netflix USA off the bat, to expect it to be the same will be setting up for disappointment.

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