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* Creator/TheABC Australia's [=iView=] service also performs this stupidity; the only difference is that Australians were never required to pay for a TV license. The reason given by the service is that it's not available overseas due to ''copyright'' reasons. Sure, that gives you the right to block imported content that airs on pay channels elsewhere (i.e. WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}}), but why are shows produced by the ABC themselves ''also blocked''?

** Hulu has also specifically blocked the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, which was briefly fully capable of playing video from the site in your living room. It now forces you to buy a paid premium service if you ever visit the site on a console, handheld or mobile device.

* UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} does this with some of their games, if not settling international folks with [[BadExportForYou inferior versions of the game]].

** Hulu is the worst offender in this regard in the anime market. Anime producers back in Japan always erroneously treat the United States and Canada as a single market when licencing out their titles, and when a North American distributor subsequently puts any anime titles it has licenced exclusively on Hulu, Canadian fans of said titles are left with essentially no legal way of streaming them online. The most infamous North American distributor that does this is Viz Media. It has had a contract with Hulu ever since 2008 to carry its subtitled anime releases in the United States, and has not had an equivalent agreement in place for Canada since the failure of Joost in 2009. And since April of 2014, all of Viz Media's English-dubbed releases are subject to this blackout in Canada as well. Viz had maintained for two years that it would have a way for Canadians to watch its streaming offerings "soon", but as all external indications said it would never happen, Viz subsequently withdrew that statement. Then, [[LateExportForYou two years later,]] Viz-licenced anime titles started showing up on Tubi for streaming in Canada, although this ended up being [[BrokenBase too late]] for a few anime fans in Canada, who have already [[FanDisillusionment blacklisted Viz]] for its supposed misdeeds up north.

** Hulu is the worst offender in this regard in the anime market. Anime producers back in Japan always treat the United States and Canada as a single market when licencing out their titles, but when a North American distributor puts any anime titles it has licenced exclusively on Hulu, Canadian fans of said titles are left with essentially no legal way of streaming them online. The most infamous North American distributor that does this is Viz Media. It has had a contract with Hulu ever since 2008 to carry its subtitled anime releases in the United States, and has not had an equivalent agreement in place for Canada since the failure of Joost in 2009. And since April of 2014, all of Viz Media's English-dubbed releases are subject to this blackout in Canada as well. Viz had maintained for two years that it would have a way for Canadians to watch its streaming offerings "soon", but as all external indications said it would never happen, Viz subsequently withdrew that statement.

* Creator/{{Netflix}} once had the dubious honor of coming in second place in this entry coming in right after Hulu. The service wasn't available in East Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and most of Asia (Japan is the only exception). Strangely, they were also not available in half of the EU, including Spain and Italy[[note]]as of November 2015, Netflix is now available in Portugal[[/note]]. In 2011, they even [[http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/6045189/NZ-internet-a-deterrent-to-online-TV stated]] that they will not bother with UsefulNotes/NewZealand due allegedly sub-par Internet connections and data caps (egregiously, something that even exists in their home territory, North America). However, after backlashwith many of New Zealanders pointing out the hypocrisy, they've eaten their words and launched the service in New Zealand. The aversion occurred at the start of 2016, when Netflix launched a surprise announcement at the 2016 CES that they're now available literally worldwide. The only countries that can't get them are Crimea, Syria, North Korea and China, the former 3 due to US sanctions, and the latter one being, well, [[BannedInChina China]].

** [=YouTube=] is officially in the list for people outside the US and UK. Almost all official content on the site may be blocked from viewers whose IP address is known to be from outside the US or UK, depending on the content providers' whim and fancy. If they're feeling generous, you get content without sound. Otherwise, you won't be able to access the content at all, even if the content's a 8-bit remix of a copyrighted song, i.e. D-Pad Hero clips, which is stupid considering the fact that D-Pad Hero is homebrew and can be freely downloaded by anyone from just about anywhere in the world.

*** Australia and Germany get an inferior version of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' and ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' compared to the rest of the world due to the MoralGuardians' meddling, and this is made possible thanks to Steam's ability to region-lock.[[note]]The uncensored version of [=L4D2=] was finally released in Australia when its new rating was introduced specifically designed for M-rated games. The same can not be said for Germany, though (but hey, at least they get some ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' weapons [[RegionalBonus no one else can normally get]]).[[/note]]

* Likewise, Microsoft's Windows Music and TV/Movies store, after being made available worldwide with the launch of Windows 10, is becoming unavailable again in a lot of parts of the world with the launch of the Fall update of Windows 10.[[note]]It is possible to trick the system into thinking that you're in an area that these stores are available in by editing the regional settings, which is also how you're able to access Cortana from outside of a supported region. But users could access everything in the store with their correct region when Windows 10 first launched. However this was changed with the Fall update.[[/note]] Many users feel that Microsoft has tricked them into upgrading to Windows 10 because of the fact. Additionally, this move has the side effect of shutting down the Groove music player as well...

** With the launch of its subscription service [=YouTube Red=], a new policy began, requiring all Partner Program members to accept terms allowing ad-free playback and videos to be downloaded for offline play through its apps for subscribers. If a partner does not agree to this policy, its content is automatically geoblocked in all regions where the service is currently active (which, on the other hand, is few; only Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, and of course the United States), regardless of whether the user is a subscriber or not. This rule created notable havoc over Japanese and Korean content (particularly music), as Japan's music industry is much more protective over their content.
** [=YouTube=] TV, which has essentially every basic cable channel, is only available in the United States since its establishment in 2017. [=YouTube=] TV was even advertised in the Toronto Raptors' home arena of Scotiabank Arena during the 2019 NBA Finals, yet Canadians can't legally access that service at all! Talks about expanding [=YouTube=] TV to Canada (or any other country that isn't the United States) have not gone anywhere due to the different structures of television ownership and regulation outside the United States.

* Youtube Red isn’t available outside of Japan, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Which sucks for people who want the originals Series/CobraKai and Series/ScarePewDiePie...

** [=YouTube=] TV, which has essentially every basic cable channel, is only available in the United States since its establishment in 2017. [=YouTube=] TV was even advertised in the Toronto Raptors' home arena of Scotiabank Arena during the 2019 NBA Finals, yet Canadians can't legally access that service at all!

** [=YouTube=] TV, which has essentially every basic cable channel, is only available in the United States since its establishment in 2017. YouTube TV was even advertised in the Toronto Raptors' home arena of Scotiabank Arena during the 2019 NBA Finals, yet Canadians can't legally access that service at all!

** Following on the heels of Hulu, Creator/DisneyPlus is also this as of February 2021. Outside of The Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Brunei (and even then some countries are subject to BadExportForYou), no other countries are able to access the service. They have blamed COVID-19 on the delay of the rollout, but it's hardly an acceptable excuse with the prevailance of remote management and access systems which allows the technicians to work on the servers from the comfort from their own home.

** Disney's been doing it on and off with Radio Disney. When they launched in the late 90s, it was available as a [=RealPlayer=] stream worldwide. Then it went down for decentralization in late 1999. They started transmitting again in early 2000, but now because each state has their own RD affiliate, having online streaming now seems unlikely. Then Apple carried the New York Affiliate over [=QuickTime=] 4 as a showcase of their then-new [=QuickTime=] Streaming Media feature in early-2002. Then the stream stopped and Disney remerges back into a single network circa 2004, and it was at this time that the no export madness started- Apparently they started transmitting internationally again in 2005, but stopped soon after. By then the station had gone through NetworkDecay anyway and many international listeners who tuned in for the oldies and lullabies slots are no longer interested because those slots are long gone.

* Many of Nickelodeon's tie-in websites start their life as being open to all countries, but slowly have mirrored regional sites created which then completely blocks all access outside the US and Cananda. These mirror sites are sometimes years behind the current US site, and reflect that many of the regional Nick affiliates are years behind the airing schedule. They are rarely updated with the tie-in/bonus videos that the US site is, and when they are, it's usually just plugging the latest episode that airs 8 months after it aired in the US. The worst offenders are the ''Series/ICarly'' and ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' tie-in sites, which makes watching the ending credits of their shows a bit infuriating...
** Fortunately, some countries that don't have local versions of the tie-in sites can access the US iCarly and The Slap sites. What countries can access them, however, is yet to be found out...
** However, there's still hope to access the US versions of the sites... Those in other countries just have to add "origin." before the whole site url.

** Of course, considering the popularity of American shows in many foreign markets, popular American shows are guaranteed to be exported.
*** Not always true: there's a lot of British/American shows that will never be aired again despite critical/commercial acclaim.

** Following on the heels of Hulu, Disney+ is also this as of February 2021. Outside of The Americas, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, India and Indonesia (and by 23rd February 2021, Singapore), no other countries are able to access the service. They have blamed COVID-19 on the delay of the rollout, but it's hardly an acceptable excuse with the prevailance of remote management and access systems which allows the technicians to work on the servers from the comfort from their own home.

*** Mind-numbingly, the English [[Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro Shimajiro]] Channel also does this. Half of the uploads made during its maiden year of 2020 is not available to those living outside the US, UK and Japan, and this carries on to 2021. The ViolationOfCommonSense kicks in when you consider the fact that the main Japanese channel as well as the Indonesian and Chinese channels do not have such restrictions.

*** Mind-numbingly, the English [[Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro Shimajiro]] Channel also does this. Half of the uploads made during its maiden year of 2020 is not available to those living outside the US, UK and Japan, and this carries on to 2021. Mind numbing when you consider the fact that the main Japanese channel as well as the Indonesian and Chinese channels do not have such restrictions.

** This will be averted in February 2021, as the service will become available worldwide though under the Star name due to the lack of the Hulu name's appeal outside the States and Japan and would not feature any third-party content shown on the US service.

* If you happened to be in North or South America (especially USA) and you are unable to watch any video on TVP's website (including their own content) then you should thank to Spanski Enterprises who until December 13, 2019 [[note]](due to the poorly negotiated 1994 Agreement signed between both companies and its later addendums)[[/note]] owned the '''exclusive''' TV/Internet/mobile rights to TVP Polonia content (including shows owned by TVP) in those aforementioned territories. [[note]]Although, according to an [[https://ddwloclawek.pl/pl/11_wiadomosci/18406_boguslaw_spanski_odpiera_zarzuty_nie_wypieram_sie_tego_kim_jestem.html interview]], there was an option to extend the agreement into another decade, but TVP luckily did not extend the agreement.[[/note]] During that time, there was a limited chance that any show to which rights are owned by TVP would reach the Americas outside the showings on TVP Polonia channel (which due to the way how Spanski handled distribution barely reached Latin America or Brasil). Ironically, for some reason, after Spanski's right expired in mid-December 2019, TVP Polonia itself literally became unavailable to any viewers based in North or South America, as the geoblocking imposed on videos on TVP's (including the TVP Polonia stream on the broadcster's website) is still persistent, though TVP is [[https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r32602252-TV-Polonia-channel-1116-no-longer-works-as-of-Dec-13 working out to finally restore the channel's availability in those territories]]

** Following on the heels of Hulu, Disney+ is also this as of February 2021. Outside of The Americas, Europe, Japan, India and Indonesia (and by 23rd February 2021, Singapore), no other countries are able to access the service. They have blamed COVID-19 on the delay of the rollout, but it's hardly an acceptable excuse with the prevailance of remote management and access systems which allows the technicians to work on the servers from the comfort from their own home.

** Following on the heels of Hulu, Disney+ is also this as of February 2021. Outside of The Americas, Europe, Japan, India and Indonesia (and in two weeks time, Singapore), no other countries are able to access the service. They have blamed COVID-19 on the delay of the rollout, but it's hardly an acceptable excuse with the prevailance of remote management and access systems which allows the technicians to work on the servers from the comfort from their own home.

** Following on the heels of Hulu, Disney+ is also this. Outside of The Americas, Europe, Japan, India and Indonesia, no other countries are able to access the service. They have blamed COVID-19 on the delay of the rollout, but it's hardly an acceptable excuse with the prevailance of remote management and access systems which allows the technicians to work on the servers from the comfort from their own home.

* Creator/{{CBC}} Gem, the Canadian Broadcasting Company's streaming service, is regioned only for Canada.

** There's a method to the madness: Treehouse TV is owned by Corus Entertainment. So it's natural that shows produced by their sister company Nelvana is available worldwide for the most part. Shows produced by other companies are more likely bound by idiotic international licenses.