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NEWS: Netflix to Stream Studio Ghibli Films Globally Except in U.S., Canada, Japan

Ultimately, though, the ever-shifting mire of legal streaming exclusivity divided among a gradually increasing number of separate services is a capitalism problem, not an America problem.

If you want to watch Ghibli movies without paying for HBO Max, you can easily buy them for BD at Walmart for like $15 a pop. It’s not like Ghibli movies are particularly hard to find or that we haven’t watched them all a dozen times by now.

Tenbyakugon wrote:

So the films will be available via HBO Max (which would be why Netflix couldn’t stream them).

Yes. Thing is, far more people in the US have Netflix than HBO Max. Making it another thing we have to buy into.

Ultimately, though, the ever-shifting mire of legal streaming exclusivity divided among a gradually increasing number of separate services is a capitalism problem, not an America problem. Media companies couldn't kill the internet, so they're trying their best to transform it into the old broadcast TV model. Which, so far, mainly seems to giving digital piracy a new lease on life.

Question: can an American visiting Europe or Mexico log into their American Netflix account and get access to the catalogue of their physical location?

Media companies couldn't kill the internet, so they're trying their best to transform it into the old broadcast TV model. Which, so far, mainly seems to giving digital piracy a new lease on life.

No, this is not a capitalism problem. This is an issue of everyone creating their own service to try and kill off Netflix. I wouldn't be surprised that once Netflix is gone, all the other streaming services will go too, because the intended kill target would be gone. NONE of the media companies has ever liked the existence of Netflix.

Media companies have traditionally hated forms of media distribution that they couldn't control. They tried to stop the VHS tape, they made it difficult for Blockbuster to exist (It never made a profit, except for a couple years), and now they're after NetFlix.

Interestingly, Amazon Prime bases everything off your home/credit card address. So while traveling, your content doesn't change.

I think it’s an interesting thought you’ve arisen though, that the collective of streaming providers could be pushing consumers to the black market because of the collective pricing of providers compared to cable pricing. I think that happens anyway with some people because that’s just fiscally more responsible and U.S.’ laws haven’t codified the illegality of the action of “third party” streaming (unless my knowledge is now outdated) to where it black-and-white is so. (This doesn’t exactly qualify as piracy, by definition, either.) We saw this behavior in more sort of laypeople when they saw they could get services like Terrarium TV and Kodi through their Amazon Fire devices when this is something so many technologically inclined individuals had already been doing this sort of thing for years (why MegaVideo was shut down years prior). Producers attempt to use their decisions to outweigh those of consumers, however in the market the latter is much more prominent, right, so it’s difficult for consumers to actually be overridden if there is a way to circumvent producers’. That back-and-forth of who outdoing whom is just the market.

In regards to the possibility of the films streaming on Crave in Canada:

https://twitter.com/CarttCa/status/1219685861085806594

"I asked. Their deal with Warner is for HBO Max original content only. So Studio Ghibli would fall outside of that and no, Bell doesn't have the rights to that content."

That's certainly concerning. If Bell doesn't have the rights, why couldn't Netflix gave gotten it for Canada? Or is Warner just gonna sit on CA rights and not offer legal access? That would basically make them the only country in the world that wouldn't be able to stream Ghibli (unless countries that don't have Netflix like China are in a similar situation).