• ‘House of Cards’ Season 4 not streaming on Netflix: The Pirate Bay makes the new episodes available

‘House of Cards’ Season 4 not streaming on Netflix: The Pirate Bay makes the new episodes available (Photo : Twitter/House of Cards)

Fans are unable to stream "House of Cards" Season 4 episodes in countries like Hong Kong, Germany, Spain and Switzerland on Netflix due to legal issues. Disappointed fans are looking at The Pirate Bay to fetch the latest episodes.

"House of Cards" Season 4 was released by Netflix last week. But, many fans in different countries were unable to stream the episodes on Netflix. In Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Hong Kong and Germany, the first season is available, however, Season 4 is not available.

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Netflix informed TorrentFreak that they don't have global licenses to telecast "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black."

"Most of our originals content will be available globally. However, with these two earlier shows, we didn't negotiate global licenses to the content and so they've aired on other platforms in the meantime," Netflix told TF.

"We may get them back in some of our new markets. For example, we have Orange is the New Black available in our new countries in Asia, with the title coming to the Middle East and Africa later this year."

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings stated that the licensing problems have been a part of the deal for seven or eight years. However, they hope to rectify them in the near future.

"We're moving as quickly as we can to have global availability of all the content on Netflix so that there are not regional distinctions. We're still somewhat a prisoner of the current distribution architecture, we're trying really hard to get there."

Meanwhile, the fans who cannot watch "House of Cards" Season 4 legally are looking for various other ways to get their hands on the new episodes. Many are using the VPN route to get access to the show. Elsewhere, the episodes are already pirated and shared on The Pirate Bay and other torrent websites.

Now it has to be seen if the "House of Cards" Season 4 episodes would be made available globally on Netflix or not. Stay tuned for more updates and news on online piracy.

Watch "House of Cards" Season 4 promo trailer below.


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