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Originally Posted by passingbat
Many of the means are there such as HULU Plus and HBO GO, but are restricted to US residents. The reason is that the studios want to do lucrative deals with non US service providers, who often delay broadcast for months after the US airing. As an example, take the mess channel 5 made of Person Of Interest; they are coming to the end of season 1, whilst the US are coming to the end of season 2.
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HBO Go is like Sky Go, you need a cable/satellite subscription to use it. PoI is most likely delayed because they've went for the cheaper rights like NCIS which they air a year after FOX, it just so happens no-one (yet) has picked up the main rights. That or their scheduling is pants.