2011 30
Netflix to launch in Spain
Published by MartinVarsavsky.net in Internet & Technology with No Comments
Probably the fact that Spain is the country with more downloads per internet user in Europe made Spain the first EU country to get Netflix. When I recently met with Presidential hopeful Alfredo Rubalcaba he spoke about how much pressure the Spanish government received to stop the downloading of US content without pay in Spain and was very aware of how Spotify was making it in Spain as a legal alternative.
Now the challenge will be to see if it was true that people downloaded because DVDs are a rip off or because they don’t want to pay any price for movies. Because Spotify really took off in Spain but only the ad based version. Few pay. And there is no ad version of Netflix. Only on Hulu there is. But to me Netflix is an incredible deal. To pay less than €10 per month for all you can eat quality streamed movies is unbelievable.
I pay for Spotify and for Netflix. Netflix I had to sign up through our home in NYC and use it with VPN service Witopia that makes me show up as a US client.
I love Spotify on my mobile!
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Julien Denoyer on September 3, 2011 ·
I can’t wait!!! I personally download using rapidshare, which I pay for. If I could pay for a legal service such as Netflix, for €10 as a all you can at buffet I definitely will. The thing with downloading is it’s a hassle to find the links, especially if those links turn out to be for something entirely different. Thanks for sharing the news, I had no idea!!!
Tatiooine on September 27, 2011 ·
I wish Netflix would set the price at 10 euros, but I don’t think that is going to happen. In Spain they overprice movies and services, so they will probably set the price over 20 or 25 euros. It’s cheaper for us to buy in the UK…
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hoblap on August 31, 2011 ·
Hulu is not available in Spain.
Grooveshark is free and available in US an Spain
I am using the free Spotify and it’s the best.
GOEAR is also free.