Utopia (Amazon Prime)

TheChizler wrote: »

Do you have your region set to the UK or something? All I have is the cr*p Irish selection.

Same here. If those that can get it are using regions for different countries that would explain it

magentur wrote: »

Semantics. Let me rephrase. Who decided that this show was not to be available in Ireland?

It's not clear that anybody did, since other boardies say they can get it with no problem.

But if a TV show [book/film/performance of any kind] is not available in one particular territory, the reason in 999 cases out of 1,000 is that the distributor hasn't secured the rights to that territory. It could be, for example, that a broadcaster in territory A has secured the rights to broadcast the show in Territory A, and part of the deal is that the show won't be streamed in Territory A until after it has been broadcast. The result is that whoever has the the streaming rights to the show will be told "but you can't stream in Territory A before [date]".

magentur wrote: »

Maybe it's just those that have been selected for the vaccine that can't get it.

Maybe the 5g transmitter injected when I was "swabbed" is causing interference.

Morathi wrote: »

Amazon.co.uk?

https://www.primevideo.com/

Set to Ireland as region

Coincidence.. HAH I think not



Elite puppet Leo Varadkar tells the Global Vaccine Summit 2020 that he is in full support to vaccinate ALL people of Ireland against their will under the guise of us all being kept "safe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPM9C_9Hhs&fbclid=IwAR2fZjx_Yk9A4Ivl1zlonZHty7Z2WGdzCUy0MzI8v50ISMhk52U5XZxP0Ew

Janus is the top-secret project at the heart of the Network's machinations in Utopia. It is split into two parts to avoid detection: a protein called GCHN1 which is added to all industrially farmed corn, and an amino acid put into the vaccine for Russian flu.

https://utopiatv.fandom.com/wiki/Janus

440Hertz wrote: »

Hate to spoil at good conspiracy theory but the government has absolutely no power to regulate or censor this.

It’s either an Amazon oversight or their usual cut down, but just as expensive Irish version of U.K. prime.

But why would they pull a major new series after only a few days?
The pharma industry is very influential in ireland. Not beyond the realms of possibility that they would have a word with Amazon about a series that might put doubts into peoples minds about the advisability of taking trial vaccines.

440Hertz wrote: »

It’s fairly far beyond the realms of possibility. Why would Amazon even respond to such a request? They run plenty of controversial content and aren’t subject to any licensing regime here and the government neither has any formal powers to do such a thing nor would they be going out of their way to annoy a multinational that supported thousands of IT jobs here.

Still seems a bit dubious. Amazon releases a major new series worldwide. Including Ireland. It does publicity for the show in Ireland and advertises it here.
A few days after it is launched it is pulled. No explanation.
Ireland is a centre for the powerful multinational pharma industry. They are very influential here.
The central point of the series is the danger of taking a vaccine.
I'm assuming that those that can get it are using Amazons UK service. This may not be the case.

440Hertz wrote: »

It’s fairly far beyond the realms of possibility. Why would Amazon even respond to such a request? They run plenty of controversial content and aren’t subject to any licensing regime here and the government neither has any formal powers to do such a thing nor would they be going out of their way to annoy a multinational that supported thousands of IT jobs here.

Are you sure about that?
What if they wanted to show something that the censors have banned in Ireland, Wrestlemania 16 for instance?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Some interesting reading there, Simpsons season 2 has a 12 rating, X Files season 6 is 18's, The Vicar of Dibley, Season 2 disc 3 is 15s, Angel, season 1 disc 2 is 18's ...

The Ciderhouse Rules is 12 in the UK, 18 in Ireland:

themes of abortion, incest and drugs
[267]

Head video censor Audrey Conlon advocated a 15 certificate on the basis it was an important subject for that age group to discuss, but Smith felt the matter-of-fact" treatment was inappropriate given the then-current context of the subject in the country.[268]

Fair enough you can't police that on streaming services, but if somethings banned, its banned, no?

This thread has been really entertaining. My only concern is that we might run out of tinfoil for our hats. Then what shall we do!?? I'd implore all who can, to go to bed..... but im also up at 3am with crippling anxiety about the state of the world. Does the tinfoil work? Asking for a friend.

So you've noticed that prime video has a more limited selection than prime section on the Amazon website and come to the shocking realisation that there's some sort of conspiracy to sterilise the Irish population?! Is that correct?

I hate to break this to you OP but the only conspiracy here is the ****ty way Amazon treat their Irish customers.

There are in fact several tiers of programmes available to Irish viewers.

Tier 1 - Amazon.co.uk prime subscribers who lied at Christmas so they could watch the premiership and now get the full UK programme selection on a firestick, Android app or through the website.

Tier 2 - Amazon.co.uk prime subscribers who didn't lie to get the premiership and get a cut down selection of programmes.

Tier 3 - Primevideo subscribers who primarily use the prime video website and get a severely cut down version.
Try going through amazon.co.uk prime or the android app or a firestick to see more stuff if this is you.

Tier 4 - People who get primevideo free from Eir who might be missing stuff even the people in Tier 3 get.

TL;DR don't use the primevideo website.
Irish customers get less because Amazon couldn't be arsed paying or negotiating rights for stuff in Ireland.
That banned programme will probably turn up on RTE at some point

magentur wrote: »

Leo Varadkar recently announced that he was hopeful that we would be the first country to be given a widely distributed vaccine for covid.

He absolutely didn't say that. And if he did he'd be a complete buffoon as both Russia and Chine have been vaccinating for months already. We will be getting our vaccines through European purchasing agreements and all EU countries will be getting a share of those vaccines in proportion to our populations. At the earliest we'll have started vaccinating priority groups in December/January, along with the rest of Europe, the UK, Canada, the US, etc, 5/6 months after China started doing so.

gmisk wrote: »

Or ask amazon to switch you to the uk...like most people.

The show is crap anyway, just watch the UK version instead

Coo, I'll do that.
I feel like I watched the UK version back then, was it around the same time as 'Humans' on Channel 4 was going?