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p2pnet news view TV | Movies:- What was missing on Amazon flick site Internet Movie Data Base, IMDb for short?
Flicks.
But the lack has now been remedied.
“IMDb is now showing full-length movies and and a great selection of full-length TV episodes directly on our site - for free!”‘- it promises, going on:
“We have the best selection of films and shows on the internet, paired with all of the rich film and TV information that you expect from IMDb. Best of all, you can watch it all right now for free! Take a look at our featured content below, or search for your favorite films and TV shows to find the videos and movies you want to see!”
For free?!?!?
YAY! Users can watch 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes gratis. 
There’s a bunch of trailers including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Watchmen, Quantum of Solace and Terminator Salvation, and we thought we’d check out one or two TV shows on the IMDb video section.
“Battlestar Galactica” - The Hub is at the top, so we clicked on that and, “This video is not available in your country.”
Oh.
Next up is “Flashpoint” - Never Kissed a Girl. So we tried that and, Yup —- and so on for every one of the 10 TV episodes listed.
Damn!
p2pnet must be based in some out-of-the-way country, eh?
But Nope. We’re just across the border in Canada.
Guess there’s no point in us staying tuned.
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September 16th, 2008 at 10:25 am
All that they have done is take hulu videos and show them on their site instead of hulu.com. And the reason its US only is because the advertisers are only paying when American people watch the commercials.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:27 am
“And the reason its US only is because the advertisers are only paying when American people watch the commercials.”
Sure it’s not cause our politicians have not yet bowed to the overloards and passed the copyright corporation law ?
September 16th, 2008 at 11:50 am
You can easily get around that by using a software like Anonymizer. Their server are in the US so it make it look like you are surfing from the US.
September 16th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Be careful about implying that Amazon owns the IMDb. As I was told in no uncertain terms, the IMDb is a completely separate company that Amazon basically has nothing to do with. They told me this after I complained to Amazon over the fact that the dictators running the IMDb banned me from the message boards for nothing more than critisizing their policy of refusing to issue warnings to people who break the rules, refusing to explain why a message or user was deleted and refusing to ever reconsider such actions under any circumstances. I’d never broken the rules in any way, but some staff member decided to ban me over the comments I made. Of course I have to guess at the reason, since nobody on the IMDb staff will tell you anything and the clause in the site’s terms about arbitration of disputes is a bald-faced lie. (NOW it mentions monetary disputes, at the time it said ANY disputes)
The IMDb is run by a bunch of petty dictators who ban people on a whim, with no absolutely no oversight or recourse for people who have been unfairly banned. When told about this, Amazon basicallt told me that they couldn’t do a thing about it as they have no control over the IMDb whatsoever. I have no idea why the IMDb claims to be an “Amazon.com company”, since Amazon clearly has no influence over them.
September 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I read a post on their message board that says it’s only available in the US due to “licensing issues”.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Because the target is US people. The commersial wont give any if they show it to European peaople.