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Netflix: Piracy is Difficult to Compete Against and Growing Rapidly (torrentfreak.com)

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[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Might be licensing but I think it's actually just that they will hide everything that's not dubbed in the language you speak because I didn't find anything on Netflix (back when I had it) that wasn't dubbed in German

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

It's just US managers who cannot imagine people speaking more than one language

[-] mke@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

My bad, I misunderstood your previous comment as saying you could only watch in your native language.

Searching a bit, I found an old blogpost explaining how to filter Netflix content so it only showed stuff available in English. So I assume it isn't (or at least wasn't) that they only show content dubbed in your language.

However, from my understanding, dubbing is quite popular. Especially so in Germany, or so say my 10 minutes of superficial research into the topic.

Netflix may simply noticed that dubbed was the more popular option by a significant margin and accordingly decided to invest a lot into making shows available with dubs, or not "waste" money making them available at all.

[-] Fisch@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

For most things that's true but 99% of anime aren't dubbed in any language other than Japanese. I still wanted to watch them tho, I always watch those in the original language with subtitles anyway. Was one of the main reasons I stopped using Netflix.

[-] mke@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I completely understand. Though I rarely watch it nowadays, I'm much the same. Sometimes I'll make an exception when I hear the dubbed version is worth it.