IIRC Netflix purchased the streaming rights for House of Cards from a studio, but the studio sold rights to others for medias&#x2F;locations Netflix wasn&#x27;t in at the time. E.g. you can buy House of Cards on disc from Sony, or on various on-demand services. Or possibly for streaming, Netflix had those rights but sublicensed them before expanding (oops, if that&#x27;s the case).