How Things Moving In Circles Affects Your Netflix Library - Tangential Consequences
64Region-limiting is widely used on video streaming sites and services like Netflix to allow studios to control who sees what in which region. But do you know how it all arose thanks to the science of things moving in circles? Let me explain the Tangential Consequence.
In the first of a new series I explain how a little, simple decision made decades ago has ended up affecting our lives today in weird ways which no one could have predicted.
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Color TV Camera by Kevin - https://www.flickr.com/photos/kb35/431014213 - CC BY 2.0 license.
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VHS Collection by Bobby P. - https://www.flickr.com/photos/tenpoundhammer/5858260991 - CC BY 2.0 license.
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