{"id":4092,"date":"2016-04-10T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4092"},"modified":"2016-04-10T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T18:20:11","slug":"netflix-disappears-from-mpaas-legal-movie-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oldnumber7.com\/?p=4092","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Disappears From MPAA\u2019s \u2018Legal\u2019 Movie Search Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"netflixq\"During the fall of 2014 Hollywood launched WhereToWatch<\/a>, its very own search engine for movies and TV-shows. <\/p>\n

The site enables people to check if and where the latest entertainment is available, hoping to steer U.S. visitors away from pirate sites. <\/p>\n

The launch received a ton of favorable press. It was soon followed up by another press release highlighting some of the positive responses, including the following comment from The Institute for Policy Innovation.<\/p>\n

“Instead of scrolling first through Netflix and then through your cable video on demand offerings, WheretoWatch.com is a one-stop shop to see what options are available to you to get to the specific movie or TV show you\u2019re looking for.” <\/p>\n

However, fast forward a few months and Netflix has suddenly disappeared from the WhereToWatch results. Quite embarrassingly, this means that the search engine doesn’t index the most widely used TV and movie streaming platform. <\/p>\n

Searching for the Tarantino classic “Pulp Fiction<\/a>,” for example, shows a wide variety of streaming options but not Netflix. <\/p>\n

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The problem gets even worse for content that’s exclusively available on Netflix, such as the popular TV-shows House of Cards and Better Call Saul. Or the recent movie “Pee-wee\u2019s Big Holiday<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

The film, which ironically was promoted in an article<\/a> on WhereToWatch, is not available online according to the WhereToWatch results. <\/p>\n

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Over the past week TorrentFreak asked the MPAA, WhereToWatch and Netflix for a comment on the issue, but none of the parties have responded. <\/p>\n

What makes the disappearance even more intriguing is the fact that GoWatchIt<\/a>, the site that WhereToWatch uses for its search results, does list Netflix<\/a> as a viewing option<\/a> for the example above. <\/p>\n

Could it be that, for some reason, the MPAA has decided to turn off the Netflix option? Or perhaps Netflix objected to being included in the results?<\/p>\n

The latter may seem unlikely, but there are other search engines that have Netflix issues as well. FindanyFilm<\/a>, the British version of WhereToWatch, doesn’t list any Netflix content either. <\/p>\n

“We get all our data directly from our retail partners and unfortunately Netflix don’t currently work with us,” the company told us when we asked about the peculiar absence. <\/p>\n

Whatever the reason, the MPAA might want to make Netflix results a priority for WhereToWatch. After all, a legal movie and TV search engine without the most popular paid video streaming service in the world is not going to be very useful.<\/p>\n

Source: TF<\/a>, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites<\/a> and ANONYMOUS VPN services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nSource: TorrentFreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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