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You won´t come in with that shoes

// September 23rd, 2008 // Movies

It´s always annoying not to get in somewhere you´d really like to be – but if there is no reason for it that really sucks.

Many US websites behave like an awkward doorman, but let´s start at the beginning.

When Dexter´s first season started the website was only accesible by US citizens – why?

I´ve been really curious to watch the web series Gemini Division since i read an article in the latest issue of Creative Screenwriting – it sounds like a great idea.

So how do i like the show? I don´t know, i´m not allowed to watch it – it´s not allowed for Europeans, i mean not even for Canadians.

Could it get any more ridiculous? What is the damn internet for? Not only to get content from your own country, the big advantage of the internet is that it is should be international.

Gemini Divisions explanation for that is the following: GD and the Geo-Lock.

Nothing would be easier to adjust the advertisment on the particular country, i mean thats what porn sites do since ages (No thanks, i don´t want to meet a girl near Vienna).

There is a big promising benefit by letting the world take part:
With web series you´ve got the incredible chance to reach audience in real time all over the world – that should be one key marketing point in difference to TV. But they really mess this chance up.

Sure there would be solutions, but i don´t get why i should use a proxy server, or spoof my ip, or search for downloadable episodes, or or or. But why so difficult, it could be so easy.

And by the way: i´d really like to watch movies when they come out and not have to wait for the translation. Just take The Dark Knight for example, i never watched the german version but still had to wait a month until it reached our cinemas.

I don´t really think that anyone would actually loose money – the people who want to see it in original sound can do – the others can wait. It´s just another way to promote illegal downloads (just like the annoying anti-piracy ads on DVDs).

I think there are quite some people like me who orient themselves on the international (and that often means American) market. I read American magazines, read American blogs, watch American series and movies but still it´s unnecessary hard to catch up with some stuff – and i don´t see a reason why.