[i]Gee, I wonder why.
Totally can't at all be because everything is either banned/restricted/region locked in that country.[/i]
I really don't understand the minds of these people. These statistics repeatedly show there's massive demand for foreign games, television and movies in other countries but that the only way they can think up to deliver it is so convoluted, slow or expensive it makes absolutely no sense for the average person for example juggle at least four or five streaming media services like they're Canadian cable bundles at $30/month each.
[QUOTE=pentium;48265291][i]Gee, I wonder why.
Totally can't at all because everything is either banned/restricted/region locked in that country.[/i][/QUOTE]
That, and videogames/software in Australia costs an average Americans trip to the doctor: a couple billion dollars.
[QUOTE=pentium;48265291][i]Gee, I wonder why.
Totally can't at all because everything is either banned/restricted/region locked in that country.[/i][/QUOTE]
or expensive
[quote]The Department of Communications said in a statement the best way to combat online infringements was for content creators to make their material [B]easy to access, timely and affordable[/B] to consumers.[/quote]
I actually can't think of anything else that would have a very big significance.
Movies here are usually delayed as anything, with ticket prices like 20pp
But the DVD was probably already released online, so instead of taking the family to the cinema, well
Netflix's meteoric rise in australia as well goes to show that if you build it, they will come and if you dont they will get it from the pirate bay
Like its not the consumers fault that businesses would rather punish us then provide us an affordable service
what do you expect from a colony full of criminals
One of the big issues that I face as an Australian consumer of TV shows and movies is low bandwith rates.
At present my connection maxes out at 450KB/s on a good day. Netflix and other streaming services do not allow me to predownload shows or keep copies of shows. If two people wanted to stream in my house it would be laggy and virtually impossible for me to stream at 720p.
I'm not as much of a pirate as I once was either, I buy 99% of my games on digital platforms and I'm able to download most games, albeit slowly.
I think the only way this is going to be solved is for the content creators allowing their content to be shown on the largest amount of platforms and making sure that the internet's capacity continues to increase to match the requirements of a constantly expanding market of streaming.
Unfortunately it's going to be 3 or 4 years before the area I'm in actually gets NBN and I'm not even in a outer suburb, I'm 5-10 minutes from the city in what would be considered a rich area.
TDLR: Australia's shit internet keeps me from streaming, internet is not getting upgraded fast enough, dropbears are probably chewing my interweb cables right now
Stuff gets expensive, takes a while to get here, and in the case with games, still gets banned sometimes despite an R18+ rating.
I hoping people see how Netflix does it, because so many people have netflix here, even though it just came out a few months ago.
I've been using netflix and its gr8 m8
Totally worth the sub
I hope Netflix kills Foxtel, then rapes it's corpse....
[QUOTE]Illegal downloads would lessen if content was cheaper and available at the same time as in other countries.[/QUOTE]
This is so late, there should be a sundial underneath it.
[QUOTE=-n3o-;48266404]I hope Netflix kills Foxtel, then rapes it's corpse....[/QUOTE]
A guy from Foxtel tried to sell it to me at my door and I said "I already have netflix" and he said "foxtel is like netflix on steroids" :unimpressed:
[QUOTE=Tmaxx;48265311]That, and videogames/software in Australia costs an average Americans trip to the doctor: a couple billion dollars.[/QUOTE]
We only pay a couple million, stop exaggerating
$90-120 for new games
gee I wonder why
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