What was stopping them?<p>Living in Russia (St.-Petersburg), [1] I&#x27;m experiencing firsthand the territorial restrictions that transnational companies impose on us. E.g. Amazon doesn&#x27;t offer <i>any</i> books in Russian and for a long time there wasn&#x27;t anything of substance to read in App Store nor Google Play, either.<p>I assumed it&#x27;s because copyright law works different in every country: to be able to offer all the property they already have rights to in the USA, in the new country (e.g. Russia), they have to strike deal(s) with the copyright holders in that country, perhaps a lengthy and&#x2F;or impossible task. Yet it doesn&#x27;t look like it in case of Netflix: they started working in 130+ countries overnight.<p>[1] I wonder if it the Russian St.-Petersburg mentioned in the press release? Works either way: Singapore is far from both.