There's a rumor floating around that might interested a whole two people or so :
Maybe you guys know about how House of Cards has been absent from various countries' Netflix catalog, because it had been licensed to a local broadcaster before Netflix put in motions plans to open in such or such country.
Those include France and Japan, for instance.
The rumor that's been doing the rounds for the last day or so is that Netflix had only licensed 3 seasons to those local broadcasters and that, unlike what would usually happen with the licensee letting the broadcaster sign up for more seasons, they are going to shut them off and put season 4 on Netflix.
This would be kind of weird considering the first three seasons would still be with the local broadcasters, but living in Japan and with DNS services being blocked one after another, I guess I'd be down with it.