Regions should be irrelevant
Country / Region based specific Content controls / restrictions are draconian. Based on a non-instant delivery method that had to PRODUCED for each Consumer, rather then COPIED to each Consumer, which is the essence of online distribution.
However, this is not out of any socially deriven policy, this is purely financially motivated, and aimed and winning one for the gipper, the US. We already produce the best possible content there is. UK studios among others are catching up, and this is a problem. We’re letting piracy do our own work, and it may or may not cost us, but it certainly isn’t gaining us what we can on our own.
Scrap the old books based distribution and rights agreements. Use itunes / netflix / youtube ( hulu goes to itunes ) and pump out affordable streams to everyone same day. Honestly we should be doing this on about Day 21 of any movie release sub “HIT Threshold” and 45 days after “HIT Thresholds, BlockBusters”.
We could use this as taxable trade exports, and then start cornering global markets by levying our Distribution platforms, in return having more of our Marketable Goods consumed by those countries.
We also can use this as a central point of influence, which with more likely net us a new round of global conquest, this time of influence and culture and progress. When your the highlight of ever countries TV and Movies, you’re shaping lives.
Someone has to start thinking big, thinking smart, thinking different to get America back on the fast track.
If America ran like Big Business, first step would be a Big Restructure, and no CEO type will argue that.
