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[Mass_Pincup]

Much like with the amazon thread where amazon takes a hit in order to ship things at a low rate despite French protectionist bullshit just because they can, if France wouldn't have stalled their own economic and cultural progress with stupid protectionist laws they wouldn't have mighty netflix knocking on the door and instead might have a native competitor that could compete with netflix locally instead.

This problem was created by backwards laws written to prop up backwards markets that were left to stagnate vs compete in the market due to the protection. That's why netflix and Amazon can come in and roll over French competitors, not American economic might or whatever bloody shirt bullshit your local politicians feed you in order to keep getting lobbying money from the markets they're protecting.

There's already native competitors to Netflix here. One with its own movies and TV shows much like Netflix.

Edit: they're actually neck and neck regarding subscribers with Netflix being slightly above.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Doesn't the French Netflix have to have 1/3rd of the titles produced or directed by a Frenchman/Frenchwoman? I'm honestly surprised LePen lost the election due to how nationalistic the French are.