WonderlandBlog.Com has a pithy analysis of the silly restrictions on viewing Gemini Division online.
Gemini Division is a web-based science ficition serial starring Rosario Dawson and picked up by NBC as its first web-only original series. But as Wonderland points out, NBC doesn’t quite seem to understand the web,
Sounds like you won’t be able to miss it even if you wanted to – unless, of course, you’re not in the US. They didn’t mean “for the web”, they meant “for the bits of the web that are geographically located in the US“.
It’s such a shame that networks and broadcasters still attempt to cling on to territories on the internet. There are no territories on the internet. And they wonder why torrenting is so popular.
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Seems wraparound ads on the site and a truckload of product placement still can’t warrant a global launch. Pity, because it’s really not difficult to google gemini division torrent, at which point they lose the counted eyeballs altogether.
The author of the Wonderland blog lives in the UK, so she’s one of those stuck out of watching unless she turns to a torrent or other site. What a stupid strategy — when are content companies going to learn that they simply can’t get away with this sort of attempt at regionalization, especially for a web-based series.
I completely agree with you here. I do wonder, though, what you think of the idea that since the British public pays a fee for their BBC that the things the BBC creates should be limited to them?